My name is Ash. I have a cat who's obsessed with watching rain, a walk-in closet turned library, and a twin sister. She's not the kind of twin you'd think of when you hear the word. Born of the same parents at the same time in the same place. We were born of different parents, at different times, in different parts of the world. But we found each other nearly five years ago, and I am convince beyond a shadow of a doubt that we were meant to be twins. She is my closest friend, my family, and my inspiration. When we met, I was a struggling high school graduate with no plans for the future, no friends outside my family, and an ego rivaling that of Captain Kirk. I was a geek with nothing to do but write for my mother and gloat about how impressed she was. Kiki was writing on a website I joined. I was proud to say I was better than anyone I'd ever written with, disregarding the fact that I was writing with people who'd failed high school English twice. We began a story together and I quickly realized I was way out of my league. I had two choices. Give up and admit I'd been wrong, or get better. I'm proud to say, my beautiful and talented sister drove me to get better. She has pushed me and fought with me to better myself and has helped shape the writer I've become. There's still a long way to go, but she still pushes me to be my best, and it's kept me where I am.
In the past four months, Kiki and I have been working on ideas for how to share our collaborations with you. Our readers are the most important thing to us, next to our writing. Without you, there'd be no us. Just two girls in a room with a computer and too many ideas. We've had several thoughts but this seemed the most profitable. So, welcome to our story telling station! Where we'll be putting up our stories little by little every day to share with you our love and passion for what we do. I hope with all my heart you'll love these stories and characters as much as I do. And I hope that somehow we will be able to inspire you other writers out there to get better. To write your hearts out. And to have the courage to share what you love with the world, even if the world doesn't always love it back.
Ditto.
Well I guess I should say something equally as insightful and clever and heartfelt... Well... Hey there. I'm Kay, or Kiki as Ash calls me. I'm 21 years old (the baby here) and my life has been everything but exciting and interesting. Upper-middle class family, white picket fence, dog and cat, two older siblings, blah de blah, blah de blah... And that was when I met Ash. A friend from high school was babysitting one day and she invited me over and showed me this new "gaming" site she found. She liked it for the games you could play, but what I noticed was the writing section of the site. I joined up and, through a few mutual acquaintances, found Ash. At the time, I was just about the epitome of a stuck-up, selfish, bratty young adult. It took a lot of troubles and fights and losses for me to realize I was absolutely nothing special. I wasn't the cute exception to the rule I'd been all through school and in my family. There were no excuses for me out in the real world (and contrary to popular belief, college did nothing to shake me of that mentality). What it did take... was the best friend I could ever ask for a really big, life-changing event.
This isn't really the place to go into the details of what happened, but basically it involved a movie, an online chat room, and lots of crying. Ever since then, Ash has been the only person I can go to for everything. Literally. There has yet to be a subject that I can't freely talk about with her - and trust me, I've run experiments. And one of the best parts of our entire relationship is how hard we push each other in our writing. We both thought we were all that when we met, and we've both gone through times when we've seriously considered never writing again. She's been a friend, a sister, and the greatest inspiration (butt kicker) I've had yet in my life.
So in summary. We don't really care if you guys like our stuff. Or if you read it at all. This is something we wanted to do, and we're going to do it. No matter how long it takes to do posts or think of new things to write about. So come along for the ride if you want =) It'll probably be pretty awesome.
