| Name | A. A. Attanasio |
| Location | Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Birthday | Sep 20 |
| Member Since | Apr 05, 2011 |
| Votes Received | 306 |
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I live in Honolulu, and I actually write most of my fiction inside a volcano: Koko Crater, a botanical garden near my home. I love fantasy fiction in all styles — from Homer and the Beowulf poet through Poe, Dunsany, and Tolkien to Calvino, Borges, and Moorcock. I do have favorites: Robert Holdstock (Mythago Wood) created otherworldly realms of enigmatic beauty that make me want to seek them out and live there! Emma Bull (Bone Dance) confronts the supernatural with emotional clarity. Nobody stretches my mind more vigorously than Jasper Fforde (The Eyre Affair). Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Raised by Wolves) depicts the spiritual hunger of adolescence (our common rite of passage) through paranormal situations both sensuous and thoughtful, and I admire her cool style. And I’m haunted by the magic of Margo Lanagan, who captures fantasies of the sorrowful heart (The Brides of Rollrock Island). Also, I’m a big fan of Paul Di Filippo (A Princess of the Linear Jungle), because his prismatic mind informs all his fiction with lyric humor and irony. When I’m not writing or reading, I enjoy hiking the high trails of the Hawaiian Islands. I get a spiritual lift visiting sacred sites where the first people told the stories that defined them. The islanders had an oral tradition. Many of their stories disappeared before missionaries introduced writing. Sitting among the stone ruins of ancient shrines, surrounded by the same elemental vistas that inspired myths now forgotten, I feel the power and grace of writing. And I share presence with silence.
Works
 | The Dark ShoreHere is an epic fantasy from the dawn of Creation, from the first worlds, the Bright Worlds. Among them is Irth. And upon Irth, in a realm of wizards, witch queens, and mag... read more 175,802 reads  306  105 |
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AAAttanasio
1 month ago
I don't know that book off hand. Is it really spelled Robbin with a double B? It may be a doppelganger of The Dark Shore! ;-)
MistyAnn1
1 month ago
@AAAttanasio For some reason your book The dark shore remind's me of the book robbin hood.Is it based on it?
specklesss
3 months ago
thank you for the encouragement, I really appreciate it! ^_^
AAAttanasio
6 months ago
You compose with compelling sincerity. Your poems burst through the wall of convention. In the realm of poetry, good and bad really have no meaning. What counts in contemporary poetry is how close the words get to where “the words meaning nothing” and yet still convey “something.” You get very close! And that, by this form's strange art, makes your humanity come across even stronger.
phantomoftheope...
6 months ago
you really think my poems are good?
AAAttanasio
6 months ago
Love and prophecy were the angels that attended the creation of The Last Legends. You must possess a visionary heart to respond so well to that word-dream! :-) Thank you for meeting me here — and for your willingness to spend some time with me on Irth!
Tanelorn
6 months ago
It was an absolute delight to find you here, and must confess that The Last Legends of Earth is one of my favorite works. It has a wonderful surreal feel combined with a plethora of imagination. With that said I must now read the book you have so kindly posted here. Thanks.
AAAttanasio
7 months ago
@Deofol Your warm remarks dilate my heart — and make room for the many far-traveling moods that first set out to write this story. I hope Irth continues to hold Charm for you.
DanDeBono
7 months ago
@Deofol Yes, i like to see young writers getting feedback, etc., but it's also nice to see professional material!
Deofol
7 months ago
I love it! Very sureal and the most polished story I've seen on Wattpad. Not done yet, though! Problem is I'm a slow reader getting use to these Ereader tablets.
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The Dark Lord stands face to face with the fire of being! He is a shadow of that unnamable fire. I, too, admire how he persists in believing he...The Dark Shore
A writer lives twice in illusion: the fiction that is written – and then what the writer fears or hopes for that fiction. Thank you for lifting...
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The beauty of art is its freedom to touch people in different ways. Thanks for hearing the music in my storytelling! :-)
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I'm flattered by such a warm appraisal of The Dark Shore! Thank you for reading my dark fantasy with such a bright heart! I hope you’ll visit Irth...
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Your enthusiasm for my fiction multiplies my inspiration! My heartfelt thanks!
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