Welcome to Klashiva

Good morning world.

It's 2:10 a.m. and I've finally got this thing up and running. I've been tossing around the idea for a halfway decent blog for a while now, and the only thing that was stopping me before was the lack of a name for the blog. Which was kind of when it hit me: the blog should come from the same place the rest of my writing does, this wonderful brain child of mine called Klashiva.

So, what is Klashiva? And, more importantly, who am I?

My name is Alexandra, I'm a developing writer in my last semester of high school. I've been accepted to the English program at my university and I'll be doing my Bachelors of English specializing in creative writing over the next 4 years. From there... only time will tell. I've been in love with writing since I figured out how to draw letters with crayons on the living room wall, and I've been making up stories for longer. It seems like a logical progression of events that I should become a writer to satisfy the child in my heart that has not quite faded from me yet.

Other than being a self-absorbed writer, I'm in the full International Baccalaureate programme at school. I just finished my Extended Essay earlier today, and my exams are in May 2011.

I'm also compete on a provincial level in archery, I shoot a Hoyt recurve bow. One day I'll rant about that... it could go on for miles.

The arts are my passions, writing being the forefront of my addiction, and I experiment with several types of visual arts including henna tattoo art as well as SFX and costume makeup. I love doing makeup for photography and film; I'm very passionate about the art behind production, which is why one day I'll likely end up working in the production industry on some level or other, likely in screen writing or directing.

It's my passion for elaborate production that drives everything I write. My writing reflects the weirder regions of my mind, hauling together bits and pieces of everything I've come to learn about the world in my short time on earth and creating unique worlds and situations that, more often than not, take on lives of their own and develop into an entity with endless possibilities.

Which brings me to Klashiva. Klashiva is my most recent brainchild; an ultramodern dystopian world. I'd love to tell you more about it, but I don't know where it's going from there. This project is what I want to build, hopefully into a serial.

I made this blog for several reasons. I want to document my efforts as a developing writer, I want to get some writing done every day, which doesn't happen with writer's block that easily, and I also want to connect with an audience, so that I can develop some kind of internet following that could transfer into my career should I ever become a published author.

That's all I have to share with you in the way of introductions. I'll try to post something interesting next time, so don't give up on me yet!

~Alexandra