I've been an anonymous reader for about six or seven years on this site, and have only recently decided to actually join up and do productive things. Among other things, I'm a college student with an English major, with twin perchants for symbolism and zealous grammatical perfection.

I also have an issue with cutting everything down to the fewest possible words; if you're going for massive word counts, I will not help you. I will sabotage you.

Writers with grammatical issues will be thoroughly persecuted until they recover. Some call this 'teaching'.

Otherwise I'm laid back. I've read so many different kinds of stories, from the Harry Potter romance fandoms to the elevated heights of Post and Timewave Zero, that I have no genre preferences left at all. Throw anything at all at me.

I am a grammar nazi. Vernacular is accepted; misspelling is not. If you've never taken a Rhetoric/Composition class, you will get one free of charge at the expense of tact.

I have an extremely minimalist style of writing. I will cut lots of unnecessary words out of your stories. These unnecessary words are called 'dross'. They make your story bad.

I have no genre preferences at all. If you suddenly include romance/horror/mystery into your story, I will not complain.

I do not direct your story. The plot is yours, my job is to make it aesthetically pleasing. I will give advice if asked, otherwise my nose will remain firmly on my face and not in your business.

I have strong tendencies toward metaphor, simile, and symbolism; the unsaid. If the negative spaces of your story are equally important as what is actually written, I can help.

I love active language. I will eliminate your passive language, so that things happen.

I give lots of references to other stories in order to inspire ideas. This is a free writing site, and to act as if one is the only writer here is a sad mistake. Example: I point out your characters are unemotional. I give you a link to Geor-sama's "Asinine Realizations" for an example. Credit is freely handed out to these other authors, because I am not them.

My sense of humor is dry, and I enjoy people not getting the joke. Because of this you will probably re-skim this profile twice to see what jokes you haven't gotten.

I don't whine if you go on hiatus or vanish. Fanfiction.net does not pay money. You cannot eat fanfics. Go work and buy food, and when you have time come back and write some more. My head will not explode without bidaily updates.

I am a grammar nazi. Vernacular is accepted; misspelling is not. Constructive critism abounds for the punctuation-uninclined.

I don't like explicitly writing an idea out. I subscribe to the Socrates method of teaching, and if you don't comprehend, I devolve my language. Some people find this insulting.

Word counts suffer under my keyboard. The most frequently used key in any editing I do is 'Backspace'. Unnecessary words are my pet peeve. If you're looking to break a certain word count more than a thousand, I'm going to be the bane of your existence once I start working with you.

Paradoxically, I like long chapters and detail. The distinction between detail and dross is what frustrates most people that I work with.

I suck at dialogue. I don't talk enough in real life to be good at writing it in my head or on my keyboard.

Syntax and context is king, so if you can't tell the difference between the implications of the words 'scary' and 'grotesque' I'm probably going to eat you alive. This is college-level writing.

I tend to vanish for two or three days at a time, easily. I've been on this site for too long to ever actually abandon it; but I am a working college student with an average of six free hours a week. If you're looking for someone who's always going to be there when you get home and jump on FF.net, hit the Back button. I don't have that much free time.

On occasion I am sarcastic.

Atmospheric pieces, one-shots, anything where the small effects are paramount are my specialty. I make heavy use of literary devices, and the more complex a work is, the more I'm going to sneak my laptop into my job and work on it during hours.

I don't really like yaoi. Unless it's not the main focus of your story, don't ask me to beta a yaoi story. I frequently make exceptions, but it's still a general dislike of mine.

Chatspeak is a lethal poison to me.

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