bravrayj

Author bio:

This is my third NaNoWriMo, and I'm going for my third win. In 2009, I won with 73K with "Magical Bride", a comedy lampshading the Magical Girl genre, and since it was my first novel length completed work, it's awaiting revision and/or rewrite in the future. In 2010, I won with nearly 97K with "Ruby Princess", another comedy, this time lampshading JRPG cliches, but sadly, it was unfinished, as the story became much longer than expected.

As a bit of a change, this year's Nano novel will be much more dramatic than the previous two, and the story is a bit darker than anything I have written. I will also attempt to finish my 2010 Nano this month. So there could be over 150K coming from me in November, but only the 2011 Nano will count towards my word count goal on this site.

Outside of Nano, I've been writing a long (400K), ongoing series, under the working title "Halogirl Mizuko", which has been in progress since November 2009, and I'm about halfway through the series at this point. It's a somewhat dramatic coming of age story with superpowers, as it follows a group of teens growing up as they uncover secrets about themselves and their worlds as they fight crime. I hope to publish this series eventually.

Most of my works tend to have a few fantasy and/or sci-fi elements due to most of my fictional media being in the fantasy genre or having fantasy or sci-fi elements. I also watch alot of animated fare and play video games from both sides of the Pacific, so I mostly picture my characters as animated (they tend to look manga-esque though) and influences my works a bit. I sometimes like to work in some mouth watering dishes into the narrative, as cooking is one of my top non-writing hobbies.