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Everyone starts out by mimicking other people, so don't feel bad. I still do it to some extent. I actually got my start writing fanfiction, which I still dabble in, but I had to completely borrow other people's characters, settings, and everything. It's good excercise for the writer's brain...

I am SO happy! :) (Hence the excessive exclamation marks and whoop for joy in the title of this thread.) Near the beginning of my junior year of high school, I convinced my parents to let me go on a school trip to Europe, nine days in London and Paris, scheduled for June or July of this year...

Granted, but it's all turned into bad rap songs (though is there any other kind) as soon as you try to listen to it. *Puts arms around Rien to help her mourn the lost of her music* I wish I could go to Egypt.

The Bartimaeus Trilogy. It is so, so awesome. I wouldn't say it's "kind" and I will warn you, if you decide to read it, that one of the main characters (Nathaniel) starts out as a good guy, a twelve-year-old kid. When we meet him again in the second book, he's slowly turning into a bad guy...

Granted, but it's the one in the crappy neighborhood that no one comes to. I wish I had a time machine.

I do that as well. I know some people who write it so that you can see into every character's head at once, and I don't like that. I only use one point of view per scene, and I always use a divider such as asterisks if, for whatever reason, I suddenly switch point of view. I sometimes...

Considering what the reader is looking for, I'd say a writer should aways shoot for quality, because quantity isn't that important in the long run. There have been both very long and very short books that have been successful, but there are few books of poor quality that are successful--this is...

I'd say it's always better to read intently. If you're just going to skim everything, there's no point in reading at all.

Wow. I think I got a headache from all the long words.

That's scary. Very scary... ...will be tuning in the instant the first episode hits.

This fall I'm starting school and studying history. I hope to one day be an Egyptologist, although I have many interests in many different time periods--but let's face it, Egypt's just awesome. ;)

Granted, but everyone makes their doorways lower so you're constantly smacking your head into them. I wish I could play electric guitar.

Quality, defintely. Some of the best books in the world haven't been very long at all, and some of the worst books in the world have been horrendously long. If you have nothing good to say, it's pointless to worry about how many pages you spit out, because they'll be pages that aren't worth...

I had considered the possibility that Snape's treachery wasn't quite what it seemed before, but I don't know that Dumbledore was necessarily aware of what was going on. I don't think Snape probably wanted to kill him, but I think he did because of the Unbreakable Vow and nothing more. What...

I would recommend Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I wish I could say that was the book that started it all for me, but it isn't. It's a book about a world ruled by a totalitarian government that controls ideas by banning all books. Some people have still managed to keep books, however, and to...

You paint an interesting picture of Prague, Stewart. I've read about it and it's kind of interesting hearing it told from someone who's been there.

I'm both, to some degree, and insomnia is much more preferable. Would you rather be forced to have dinner with Adolf Hitler or Francisco Franco? (I'm evil.)

Granted, but now the ideas are coming to you so fast that you don't have time to write them down and you go crazy. I wish I were a hot vampire chick with pale skin and long, black hair.

Sometimes I don't find the time, but I bring books to school and read when I'm done with my work and things like that. I read in the bathtub, and then I have my normal reading time. In addition, I read much faster than other people. I think that's the only reason I can read as much as I do.