Ken Collins

Ken Collins

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Beaverton, OR
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About Me


Born and raised in Oregon, where it rains, all the time. Seventeen years old. I will be eighteen next time the date happens to be July 5th. I am pretty anti-social. Except for people I get along with. And writers. Most writers I've talked to are very cool people. I am the overweight storyteller.
Incorrect grammar, abbreiviations (sp?) (examles: lol, omg, wtf?) and using numbers in writing (example: "there were 24 balloons, Mom.") bothers me.
I try my best when critisizing (sp?) to be kind but honest, to say what needs to be said, and not be cruel. I think I do a god job of it. Sometimes I apologize. "Kill your darlings."
I am also a bad spiller. I mean, speller. Lol jk.
I mostly write science fiction. I haven't written anything else since I was small. I have written for as long as I can remember, and have always had a passion for it. After sixteen years, I have isolated why. It is becuase my mother has been a bookworm all her life. When I was young, some subconcious part of me must have picked this up, and wanted to write myself, to make her happy. I remember drawing pictures for the stories I wrote, (ones that never seemed to get finished), thinking I would get them published.
I have probably been too influenced by other authors, but I think lately I have finally developed a style to call my own, not unconciously copying other people's ways of the word.

I like to listen to:
AC/DC
Angels and Airwaves
The Beatles
Blink-182
Flogging Molly
Green Day
Guns N' Roses
Jet
Led Zeppelin
Linkin Park
Lost Prophets
The Misfits
The Offspring
Pink Floyd
The Postal Service
Queen
The Ramones
Sugarcult
System of a Down
The Who

That's pretty much everything on my iPod. While I listen to music, I sing along, rather badly.
I adore video games, and it provides as a distraction from writing.
I do not do well in school, and have no other interest than writing, nothing I really want pursue. So I really just want to make my living writing novels. I don't know what I'll do if I can't do that.
Critisizm is NOT appreciated. Constructive critisizm is.


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Posted 15 Years Ago


I know your not online much anymore, but I wanted to thank you for introducing me to this website almost a year ago. It's pretty cool and I've appreciated it, but the thing I love about it most is it inspires me to write :) I have something to write for you know. So Thanks!

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Posted 16 Years Ago


Thank you so much for your review of "I Have Not Done My Laundry Yet"!!
I very much appreciate it!
Love,
K

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Posted 16 Years Ago


Articals on writing....
May 4, 2007 - Jul 4, 2007
Win $00.00, You get to know that you were the very best! A personal feeling of accomplishment is the most rewarding of all prizes....

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Posted 17 Years Ago


In answer to your question, no I am not framiliar with the quote you mentioned. I is just a piece I wrote for a short and sweet contest here at
W/C but thank you for the review.
Debby

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Posted 17 Years Ago


Thanks for catching my error and thanks for the review.

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Posted 17 Years Ago


Ken,
Thanks so much for your review on my piece "Somewhere", i felt the sort of dreamlike word weave as well, thank you for noticing :)
Love,
K

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Posted 17 Years Ago


Do you have anything that you want to say about 9/11? Something that I could add to the thoughts section of the book. I really don't have a whole lot there.

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Posted 17 Years Ago


Thank you for you're kind words, He would have been just about you're age but he was still a newborn whenI lost him.
Debby

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Posted 17 Years Ago


Thank you for you're kind words and for letting me know about my error.
Debby

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Posted 17 Years Ago


Thanks for reviewing 'How to Sell Crap on the Internet', Ken, you're very kind.
I'll review your work as soon as I get a minute... I'm totally snowed under with a final edit of my book at the minute (life is so hard).
Thanks,

Kevin