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So, um, hey, hi guys, hi.

First things first, I didn’t realize I’d be stuck with the @ name I stupidly chose originally, and now ’m, uh, stuck with it, so… yeah. I’m @HGMbarnes18, that sounds smart, doesn’t it. -_- Obviously not as edgy and enigmatic and pretentious as I’d like. Okay, on to the intro, I guess.

I’m Hannah, a random teenage girl who loves to read and write. I’d actually been looking for writing encouragement for quite some time, and I discovered StoryEmbers a while ago. Anyway, I finally decided to say hello to all the lovely people here, so, hai there.

I am a… confusing person. And confused. But that’s just life. I don’t know what I am, exactly. Still trying to figure life out. I mean, obviously I’m human, though I’m supposed to be the “coldest human” as an INTJ (I’m also proud of this because 0.8% of females are INTJ, so that’s cool). I really love analyzing the MBTI types and what certain traits mean… when I was writing this, I had to edit out a bunch of MBTI mumbo-jumbo that I was spewing, because I’ve spent hours researching it.

As a person, I am not very chatty in real life, though on the Internet I suppose I can ramble forever if it’s about something I love. I’m socially awkward and too many people can freak me out, so thank Merciful Domi for the Internet! (That’s just a book reference and a joke, okay, I’m not in some cult to a weird false god.) As you can probably tell, I’m very good at being random and rambling, as my few but trusty friends can attest. Not that I don’t want to make more friends, of course. X)

Okay. Some of my favorite things are…

Books. My favorite stand-alone novel is The Book Thief (Markus Zusak), my favorite series (currently) is Arc of a Scythe (Neal Shusterman), and my favorite authors are Brandon Sanderson and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Movies. I especially love Marvel movies (The Winter Soldier is my favorite, plus I just love Bucky) and anything by Christopher Nolan (especially Inception).

Music. Besides my favorites— TØP, NF, Cavetown, Imagine Dragons, Hamilton, Coldplay— I like 80’s music, scores and soundtracks, and a lot of random, obscure artists.

Twenty One Pilots, aka ukulele screamo trash, which gets its own category because it’s the best band ever. Stay Alive. |-/

I also love dark chocolate, sarcasm, wasting time on YouTube, participating in theological/philosophical/political debates (as long as they’re civil and rational), and correcting people’s grammar.

As far as my own writing goes, I write a lot of different things. I like to experiment with different styles of writing and formats based off what I read, as well as different genres or ideas. I generally write lots of speculative fiction; mainly futuristic dystopian sci-fi, and a good bit of fantasy. I also sometimes write contemporary fiction, but I can get bored with writing realistically— I mean, books are where I go to escape that! XD

My goal in writing is pretty much what I once said in a spoken word poem (which I never actually spoke to anyone but myself): “It’s just so much easier to write; | to put my words onto the page and fight | off the feelings I hate with the truth and the light.” In writing, I seek to do that in a God-honoring way, because “the truth I know often contradicts with what I feel”. But truth must prevail, nonetheless.

Besides your average novel, I love writing poetry in all different forms and styles (including what is probably my favorite; a Great Gatsby inspired story-poem at nearly 1600 words). I also sometimes write raps (I have a lot of those) or songs, flash fiction, and the occasional short story— the longest I’ve done is a seven-part short story series that I’m now working on turning into a novel.

And now this introduction to me has turned into a novel, as well, because once I get going on the things I love, I can never stop… my apologies, frens. Have a wonderful day, and Stay Inspired.