Stephanie Snyder

Name: Stephanie Snyder
Age: 19, 20 in December
Likes: Intelligent discussion; romance novels; writing; singing; all kinds of movies; all kinds of music
Dislikes: Bigotry; racism; mindlessness; all-around ignorance; unnecessarily loud noises; high-pitched squealing
Occupation: Pizza maker
School: Binghamton University

Basically, I'm a crazy writer-poet-revolutionist hybrid just trying to make it through college. No one told me life would be so f*****g hard. Still, it's great plot material, if I ever manage to finish one of my stories.

My life has been dull by many standards and interesting by many others. While I may not have experienced much in my short life, I feel wizened and as though I have an aged mind (then again, who doesn't?). I've been writing since I was six-years-old (that's the earliest story I remember), when I recounted the tale of two star-crossed Mexican lovers named Miguel and Gabrielle. The entire thing was tragic, really. It was the only story I ever finished and it was only twenty pages in the end. You can bet your a*s those were a dramatic twenty pages, though. I am quite proud of that story, mostly because I finished it, but also because I think it was one of my finer ideas. At that age, I'd not yet had all my originality driven out of me.

Contrary to popular belief (and trust me, it is popular belief), I don't breathe fire or have a heart coated in ice. I absolutely love romance with every bit of my soul. Mysteries bother me (in a good way) and horror... to be honest, I like the feeling of being scared. Not truly actually scared (that sucks quite a bit), but the kind of terror a great book or fabulous movie can instill in one's soul.

I smoke, I drink, and sometimes dabble in recreational drugs, and I am honestly just looking for the truth that freedom brings. Whether I like it or not, I always want to know the cold hard facts.

I greatly admire emotionally detached characters, perhaps because I long to be like them. People have a lot of emotional investment in everything they do and a character that can extract themselves from the unreality of feelings and be pragmatic is... really awesome. However, I really love complexity as well. I've come to admire the fantastic character work that went into creating Vincent Valentine from the Final Fantasy VII series. I also admire Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy and Disney's infamous creation in Jack Sparrow.

Okay, so I lied. I don't admire these characters but am in love with them. Damn. In any event, their complexity is absolutely awesome and I only wish I could have created a character as amazingly cool as those three.

So that's me in a nutshell. I'm just a young woman trying to make her way and leave her mark on the world. I want to live the things I've read about and then write about what I've lived.

Oh, by the way, religious fanatics: crawl in a hole. Political fanatics: same rules apply. Love talking about both of these things but only if the other party is a reasonable, sensible human being. I know these "mythical creatures" exist. I am not fooled.