Minisinoo has been scribbling
fiction since she was eleven years old and got bored with the usual
"write a sentence
that uses this vocabulary word" exercise in 6th grade
English class. Her sentences turned into paragraphs, then those
paragraphs turned into little stories . . .
and her poor teacher let her get away with it. She even -- horror
of horrors -- encouraged her.
Min comes by storytelling
honestly. She's a storyteller from a long line of them.
In
native tradition, telling
stories is sacred business: holy. Sure,
storytellers tell stories to entertain, but Min likes to tell
stories that might actually "mean something," too (and how's that for
arrogant?). What she's doing writing fanfiction . . . well, even
she hasn't figured that out yet. It sure don't pay the
rent. Being
serially
monogamous in fandoms, she wrote in X-men for 6 years, then
migrated
to Harry Potter and has even dabbled in Twilight. She's been on
hiatus from fanfic writing since 2009.
She's
held a lot of different jobs in her life, including bereavement
counseling, mediation, general
counseling, and teaching college. She has an undue
fondness for drills and other power tools, pretends to garden, and
likes to cook -- to which her waistline will attest. If
asked what mutant power she'd most like
to have, her unequivocal answer would be "telekinesis," so she could
get
dishes off her top shelves without climbing on the kitchen
counters. (And like Caesar, she occasionally writes about herself
in third person.)
The Quidditch Pitch Interview
Given in March 2008, when Nature
& Destiny was chosen for Editor's
Choice story of the month.
"So You Think You Can Write" Blog Interview
Done in December 2009 for a largely Twilight Blog, but the interview
focus wasn't Twilight
Annotated List of Journal Entries
Meta on writing and fandom with a dash of humor.
Awards
The
honoring that readers and colleagues have graciously given
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