purplyana
- Age:
- 27
- Location:
- Manila, Philippines
- Hobbies:
- reading, playing Dragon Nest and Civilization V, watching TV shows (lots and lots of TV shows)
- Favorite noveling music:
- Folk-Rock of the 1990s and 2000s
- Occupation:
- Web Editor
- Favorite books or authors:
- Chronicles of Elantra (Michelle Sagara), Sandman graphic novels (Neil Gaiman), Valdemar series (Mercedes Lackey), Tortall series (Tamora Pierce), Eve Dallas series (J. D. Robb), 1984 (George Orwell), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Gabriel Garcia Marquez), Blindness (Jose Saramago), Diane Ackerman, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Jane Austen, J. D. Robb, Laurell K. Hamilton, Tamora Pierce, Mercedes Lackey, Maryjanice Davidson, Michelle Sagara
Author bio:
I joined NaNoWriMo at the insistence of a friend in 2006 (she'd been bugging me for a while), won that year in word count even if I never finished the novel.
I didn't join in 2007 since I took a job as a manuscript copy editor and didn't think I could edit all day (even if some of the manuscripts I edited totally embodied the notion of "no plot, no problem"), then come home and turn off my inner editor to write.
Won in 2008, 2009, 2010, again on the word count technicality---too much world building, I think. Last year was my first year as co-ML, and it was equal parts fun and crazy. I'm back again this year, still looking to reach that elusive "Finis" and still looking for ways to make NaNo fun (more fun) and crazy (crazier) for Asia::Philippines.
