So I'm lacking a really spiffy Alias alias. Yes, that pun was necessary. Really. I'm not doing it again, but it was. Trust me.

I don't know why I do this, really. Why every fansite I put together seems to require the inclusion of this micro-bio. No one goes to these sites really wanting to know about me, or at least I don't think they do.

Maybe I write the things because the people who are interested in one fansite might not be in any of the others. Maybe because I assume none of you know this junk already, and the few of you who do will just peek in here, say to yourselves "great, another bio. next!" and move on from there.

If I had a spiffy Alias penname (see? I said I wouldn't do it again) I could tell you about it here. I could explain why I picked it, and other related stuff. Maybe it would interest you, maybe it wouldn't. But anyway, that's what I would say.

Aliases, pen names, code names... All the same. I have too many already.

So. Me. Chris Anderson, or Christine. College student, California girl. I write.

I write in the dark when I can't sleep; when the rain drums on the roof and the fog rolls in, or in the heat of high summer. I write when I should be doing other things; I multitask, homework and fic and back to the homework again. Somehow it all gets done.

I write the way that I breathe. Because I have to. Because it's necessary. But also because I love it- love it though I hate the struggle, the struggle for just the right words, the struggle for perfection. Knowing it's there, always just out of my grasp.

I used to go through periods of time where I thought everything I wrote was crap, that I would never write anything good enough... I never tell anyone these things, of course. I keep them to myself with the rest of the secret doubts and fears. I won't say it's gone, only that I haven't felt it in a while.

I write. I channel characters' darkness, their dreams and their demons, and no few of my own. I write a lot of things, some of them contradictory. Angst on one hand, romance on the other. Angsty romance sometimes, too.

And there is, of course, a lot of room for all of those things in Alias fic.

Perhaps the code names, or lack thereof, are not so important after all.

It's the words that really matter.

tinker, tailor...