Welcome to my profile!

Seeing as you are either curious or interested in who I am, please read the following information on myself. I hope that you grow to love my stories and that you pursue your own writing/reading ways.

Name: Jenn

In some of my fanfics I have either referred to myself as Jenn, The Jenn (oh silly me), or Any1there4me.

Birthday: July 16th

I'm in my last year of teenage-dom.

I'm currently in college and started writing/posting stories on Fanfiction.net way back in my sophomore year of high school. I'm now going to be starting my sophomore year of college.

Majors: Chemistry and English (with a focus in Creative Writing...Yeah, I know. My college actually offers that, which is why I chose it.)

Minor: Performace Minor in Music (I play the clarinet and have played since I was in 6th grade. This past semester I actually had the opportunity to participate in the Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Band, which is the equivalent of All State Band but at the college level. I was the only one from my college to attend.)

Home: United States of America. Virginia.

College: United States of America. Pennsylvania.

If any old readers of mine have noticed, I have simplified my profile and completed some major renovating. My reasoning is that some of what had been posted was superfluous and not me anymore. I want to show you all a little bit of who me, the writer is, but not by giving you information that is now false to who I am.

Now that I have that off my chest, I would like to sincerely apologize to readers, especially those devoted to reading my stories. I never intended to be away so long; I had actually hoped to finish my major pieces a long time ago (like quite a few years ago), but I couldn't. I had lost my want to write, especially after reading the conclusion of the Twilight series. You see, and some of you may or may not agree with me on this point, I was very angry for how it ended. Don't get me wrong, I love that everyone got what they wanted in the end, ecstatic even. But, as a writer and amatuer philologist (something I've gotten myself into my freshman year of college) I felt that Stephenie Meyer had rushed through writing Breaking Dawn and actually didn't like some of how the plot unfolded. I felt the writing was weak in many spots, with major grammatical errors that I winced at and couldn't get off my mind as I reread the errors repeatedly. I was even angered at where she had ended the Cullens' story. Overall, I just felt there wasn't ENOUGH. There was so much more that is left unanswered. However, I just recently did a major marathon of rereading the Twilight Saga straight through, no stopping to even look at other books, after I bought The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner and realized at how ridiculous my anger was. How could I be angry with Stephenie Meyer for not being perfect when even I am not perfect myself? So, in my own little way, I forgave her. Being a writer is hard stuff. Getting your work out there is tough and revealing. I recently met an amazing author and asked her if she felt she were selling her soul at times when she knew that people were reading her autobiography. Her reply: "Most certainly. A writer reveals themselves in such a way that the reader, without even knowing it, has gained personal insight into who the writer is. And, yeah, it does feel like your soul is slowly being chipped away as more people learn one's inner secrets." That is what Stephenie Meyer has done with this amazing saga, and I wish that I had this epiphany a couple years ago, because I really want to finish these stories of mine. Anything that is started should always be finished, even if it takes years.

One final thing:

Like I said, I'm doing some major remodeling of my profile, so I just wanted to give you all a heads up that information from my old profile that has to do with the stories in any way will be reposted within the next couple days.

Thank you all, and I hope to hear from you guys one way or another (message or review is best).

"Jenn, The Jenn, Any1there4me"