maybe-lena

My name is Helena. I'm a seventeen year-old engineering student and pseudo writer. I started writing group fanfictions about Orlando Bloom, they were very silly, but I had a good time and made a lot of friends. That was enough to make me want to write forever.

I REALLY like Harry Potter.

My favorite character from the Harry Potter series is Oliver Wood and I really wish to write something about him. Not a twilight-like romance with self insertion, though – and that’s exactly how it’d end up being.

Besides Harry Potter I like Eragon, Tunnels, His Dark Materials, Dom Casmurro (which is a Brazilian book I read in high school, I highly recommend it and believe there is a translation in English), Meg Cabot’s books and some silly childish books that I read for relaxing purposes.

I also like watching Criminal Minds, Glee, The Big Bang Theory and House, but I don’t think I’ll write about them. I have problems with writing more than one thing at the same time, it makes life crazy.

And then I confuse everything.

About my writing, I’m very concerned about it and may feel bad if criticized, but it’s very much necessary. If people don’t tell me what I need to improve, how will I ever get better?

That said, I normally write in the third person, but my narrator is magical and can read minds and knows all about people’s feelings. He’s like a non-sparking Edward Cullen! When I write something with ambition of publishing it, I don’t self insert – but, as with every writer, there’s always a little of myself in every character.

And now, about my reading, I don’t read as much fanfiction as I did in the golden days of high school when I had nothing to worry about. Right now, I avoid reading anything that’s not related to engineering or biotechnology, because once I have a book or fanfiction I really like, I forget all the important things just to read it.

I don’t think there’s a basic profile to my reading. I’ll read anything that I see: books, magazines, even my shampoo’s bottle. The thing is finishing it.

I know my writing isn’t perfect, but when I find many spelling mistakes, I’ll probably abandon the reading. And I’m not a big fan of slangs, unless the character saying it would really use it in the contest. I highly dislike non-sparkling Edward Cullen like narrators who use them; it just ruins everything for me.

Oh, and just for the record, if you read & review one of my stories, you’ll be rewarded with your own beautiful invisible unicorn - and my eternal gratitude (eternal meaning until I have a new chapter/story and need new reviews). And that’s not an offer that comes every day. I mean, just picture yourself with that invisible unicorn!