Renka
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| Gender | Female |
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| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Renka is my nom de plume/nom de guerre - depending how I feel on the day. I've always loved writing; starting with poems on the short and tragic life of the Snowdrop with plenty of pathetic fallacy. Moving on to darkly gothic tales for every school English assignment - the actual title didn't matter; I would have a dark, scowling hero, a few vampires, murderous villain and a heroine who did little more than wear good clothes. Teenage angst was explored in poetry - influences were Philip Larkin, the Mersey poets and Saint Bob. These poems are unremittingly awful, but I've kept them to remind me never to write poetry again. I graduated to university essays on Anglo-saxon saucer brooches, carbon dating and medieval floor tiles. This was followed by more essays on cataloguing and classification (oh yes - it got better). For a while my creative energies went into job applications. A friend then bet me that I couldn't write a romantic novel - well I did, but sadly it wasn't published as I was told 'it lacks that unique Mills and Boon flavour' - this was not surprising as I had never read one. |
| Interests | having a good hair day, reading detective novels, shoes that I can walk in, writing, Ciaran Hinds, gardens, Frasier, craft, art galleries, Gilmore Girls (thank you Zoe), Jane Austen, covered buttons, swimming in the sea, eating cake, having a laugh |
| Favorite movies | Persuasion, Rope, Citizen Kane, It's a Wonderful Life, Gone With the Wind, Deer Hunter, Spartacus, Taxi Driver |
| Favorite music | Rolling Stones, The Clash, Steely Dan, The Eagles, Leonard Cohen, The Prodigy, The Doors, Sex Pistols, Moby |
| Favorite books | Persuasion, The Member of the Wedding, Catcher in Rye, Vanity Fair, Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, Madam Bovary, Anna Karenina, |