HEY everyone! I'm 22 years old, and I have grown up writing. I first started on the B2K and Bow Wow Sony message board sites, creating fanfiction at age 12. Then, I moved on to BBS Reloaded, writing my most successful fanfictions there. I took a 2-3 year break from writing on message boards to work on becoming a better writer. I've taken several college workshops in poetry and fiction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and now I'm here and starting to submit work for publication.
I primarily write black romance and things in perspectives that are not my own. Male perspectives, life events that I have not gone through, etc. I am a STICKLER on deviating away from black stereotypes and creating complex, realistic, and believable black characters. Too many a times I've read stories (mainly fanfic, online stories) where many African Americans are loud, "hood," "thugs," and other types of negative stereotypes in which they aren't depicted as humans with raw emotion and can succeed in life. Not here for that. Anyways...
Check me out! Please leave constructive criticism! I have thick skin! Just don't be rude and/or leave ineffective comments (not citing examples where something didn't work for you, or just saying it sucks without saying why, trying to make the story your own)
Fun Facts:
- Lover of R&B music, can't write without it
- Music and Basketball
- Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated
- Pizza, french fries, chicken
- Poet
- Wisconsin, USA
- JoinedJanuary 18, 2015
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anjanee2520
Jan 30, 2015 06:07PM
For anyone who is reading Reach, I eliminated chapter 2, so chapter 4 is a new chapter (which would have been chapter 5) just to clear any confusion... thanks :)View all Conversations
Stories by Shayla
- 2 Published Stories
Business & Pleasure (erotica)
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Business and Pleasure is an erotica compilation of three stories about the lives of Andrea and Corey, Kacey a...
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