Some of you might be wondering how I come up with so many plot lines, characters, etc. Don't ask, I have no clue. Really. Now I suppose I know in my subconscious, but that doesn't help much. Honestly, the plots just kind of develop themselves, so let me know if you ever think my plots might be a little too predictable. I will try harder to make them more enjoyable. I will try to explain the origin of my novels, but don't laugh... You might be tempted. I know I would love to laugh, but there is no way I can without admitting there is something wrong, and maybe there is... |
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Am I Alyx McLean? No in many ways I am not, but I believe in some ways she is me.
Alyx is an only child. I am one of 5 children. I am the middle child. Despite this I feel like I could be an only child. Yes I share a room with a very annoying younger sister, but I am alone, isolated from others, and always have been. I thought my isolation stared after my 9th grade year, but it was always there. I'm different. As young as I remember I have always been obsessed with spies, adventure. I have a very active mind, and its not all imagination, not all intelligence. I have artistic tendencies, an excessively creative side, but I also have a serious, logical, intelligible side. On my creative side I create characters like Alyx McLean, I think of imaginary situations in our real world. On my logical side, I do math problems for fun. I'm a problem thinker. I do that well, but when it comes to people, I don't do so well. This is why i feel like an only child sometimes. I prefer solitude at home, even at school sometimes, to the being one of many because I'm not. My self isolation has always existed in one form or another. In first grade, I wandered the playground alone, just thinking. Walking around my back yard the summer after 1st grade I figured out the key to Algebra, that the letters stand for numbers, and assigned each letter a number and did problems that way. I asked my mom complicated questions about volcanoes after watching Mt. St Helen's she couldn't answer. I asked my dad curious questions about how music was recorded to get the sound I was hearing one Saturday, and I was intrigued by his long answer. Not many 4 year olds would think to ask, or care to listen to that answer, so yeah I'm an only child. And my dad seems to know. I am different than classmates and siblings alike. Not many people can say that. I'm sure somewhere there is someone like me and maybe you are reading this now, but then again, I may be wrong. Maybe I am alone, maybe I am just like Alyx. Sure Alyx is many things I'm not. When I first created her, She was a couple years older than me. Now I am her same age, almost older. When I created Alyx, she was everything I wanted to be when I was 16. She is extraordinarily smart, super athletic,she drives, she is tall, strong beautiful; she is perfect. Everything I wished I could be was her. She became a likable person, someone much like me, but someone who could hide that distinction and becomes someone else. She is well known, caring, in control. She can control almost any of her environments. She commands attention, while blending in. She is hard not to know, but she is hard to find. She is only seen when she wants to be seen, and then, only by who she wants to be seen by. Her quite reserved tendencies in the class room causes her intelligence to only be revealed to a select few. Yet she almost always has the highest grade in her classes. I am not quite that good, or even close, but like her, I am very aware of an ability to do better, that I am not the best and could reach that level. Now as I look at Alyx as I am her age, I realize that as I give her traits, they are my magnified talents. I run track and do 400s, 800s, and 300m hurdles, so she runs 400s, 800s, and 300m hurdles and does them much better than I do. I can't drive but she can. I am short so she is tall. I wear glasses because I am blind, so she has perfect vision. I honestly couldn't write about me, but deep inside the character you will find me. But still, everything I have described is okay, not great. So what better to add to the character than a love interest. Seriously, I don't think I could fall in love like Alyx does at this point in my life, although I won't say I don't want to be asked out because that would be nice to be noticed for once... So to answer the question of am I Alyx McLean, honestly, no. But when you really analyze the character, you find that she is living the life I wish I had. You would find pieces of me, pieces of my opinions, my personality, of my heart in this character of Alyx McLean. Read Carefully and maybe you will be able to figure out who I am, and remember that Alyx McLean exists so that I can escape my boring life of commonalities to live someone else's life, and hopefully allow you to do the same. ~Aly Kay |
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