Lila


 * BIO**


 * I was born under a full moon and until I was eight, I fully believed that I was a werewolf. Then I found out that I'm allergic to dogs and ditched that idea to move on to bigger and better things that had me equally outcast in school. I learned that people are mean. I also learned that goldfish die fast, and that it doesn't matter if the tooth fairy is fake because you get a quarter, anyway. And then I hit middle school and I started to write. And I didn't stop. I had so many ideas that I wanted out because //someone// had to agree with me, right? Then I got to high school. and despite being shoved down the stairs my very first day, I figured out the logic behind optimism. And I kept writing. And one summer, I had to grow up, and the next summer, I had to help others do the same. And then I met myself, part of myself, at least, and I liked her and I worked with her, because she still had a way to go. And I stumble, a lot, and sometimes I can't think of the words, and I definitely say "and" too much, but I don't really care, because I'm happy with that. Happy with me. Happy enough, at least.**


 * INTERVIEW (by Zach Bogner)**


 * Q: What would you say is your biggest influence on your writing?**
 * A: Things that either I say to people or that others say to me. Because I think that what you say and when you say it and stuff is important… I feel like what people say is really important, and I feel like it just sticks sometimes.**
 * Q: Is there a person who influences your writing a lot?**
 * A: Yes, but I’m not going to say who it is.**
 * Q: What’s your favorite thing to write about?**
 * A: It’s not my favorite thing to write about but I always end up writing about death…**
 * Q: What do you enjoy about reading?**
 * A: I like things that have real feeling in them. Like not just like a poem that is like “love is wonderful and the sky is so blue and everything is joyful, yay”… I’m not saying that it’s not real, it’s just not personal.**
 * Q: How has being the president of Soliloquy affected your writing?**
 * A: I write the same amount, but I am much more hesitant to show it to anyone… maybe that’s irrelevant maybe it just happened because I’m afraid of being judged.**
 * Q: Why would people judge you?**
 * A: I don’t know, because I judge myself on it, like the quality of my work, and I feel like other people will too, because people tend to judge writing.**
 * Q: What is your favorite thing to write?**
 * A: Dialogue, because I love people and I love hearing the way they speak and what it means and the specific words they’re saying and what those words mean.**
 * Q: What’s the best thing you’ve ever written?**
 * A: There was this scene I wrote… I wrote this scene and I can’t find it now but I wish I could because I really like it.**
 * Q: Why did you pick fiction as your track*?**
 * A: I figure that it’s sort of a combination of the other two, at least to me, and they’re both things that I like, so… because I like fiction to be poetic, and I like the dialogue portion of it that comes from playwriting or screenwriting.**
 * Q: Twilight?**
 * A: FUCK NO**


 * I switched tracks to poetry. Does this make me a quitter?**


 * Don't answer that...**


 * And... A SAMPLE OF MY WRITING THAT I AM NOT HORRIBLY PROUD OF.**