My name is Emily of the Pen, or rather, Emily. I'm fourteen years old, and I'm an amateur writer from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
I love it in Mississauga. It has the raw power of a city and the majestic beauty of nature. If your in the central Ontario area, you should go to Mississauga just to look around.
I live with my logical father and my "hippie" mother. My eight-year-old brother is the normal annoying a sibling can be. I have a Borador (Border Collie X Black Lab hybrid) named Brigid, after the Celtic goddess (my mother's idea), and two cats named Chip (my baby) and his "girlfriend", Luna.
I do the normal teenage thing. I like to hang out with my friends, listen to music, and ride my bike. I also do not-so-normal teenage things like finding stray cats and playing with them, researching natural disasters and serial killers, ghost hunting, and most of all: writing novels.
I just recently joined the National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo), and want to submit my newest novel, A Dog Named Shep, in the November 2008 contest. I mostly write horrors, always being morbid, even since I was little. But I also like to write heroic and action stories. I have also written three short scary stories (urban legend-like if you will).
At nearly 14, I belive strongly in many things. I think that the privledged should always give whatever they can to the innocent helpless, like starving orphans in Africa, or even orphaned kittens and puppies at your local shelter. I don't believe in big-budget entertainment, because that money could change or even save a person's life in a major way. I believe that everything is equal. Women and men. Blacks and whites. I even believe that animals, all animals, should have the fair treatment by a human that we would give to any other human. Exploiting, mistreating, or taking advantage of animals for human benefit is wrong. Meat, most cosmetics, fur clothing, racetracks, animal actors, zoos, ect. fall into that category, and I will fight them at all costs. I also don't believe that religion is important. I gave up religions when I was 10. Instead, I am a solitary naturalist. I believe in and worship nature, science, and fact: things I can see and/or proove. I'm told I make a few people angry with my believes. I don't care. They're my principals; my rules of life. And I'm not changing them for anybody.
That's pretty much all you need to know about me. If you want to chat, email me at writingstories@hotmail.com Emily out! If you want to know more about me, keep reading my website!