Hi and welcome to my About page!
My name is Lauryn Trimmer, and I love telling stories.
When I started my first blog ten years ago, I wanted to write about books. And that passion stuck with me.
Now, I’m a writer and storyteller, working with everything from nonfiction to novels to poetry.
A little bit more about me:
- My favorite TV shows are Stranger Things and Parks and Rec.
- Books I’m currently obsessed with include A Darker Shade of Magic (by V.E. Schwab), The Hazel Wood (by Melissa Albert), and Peace Like a River (by Leif Enger).
- I’m an enneagram 6, “the loyalist.” (J.R.R. Tolkien and Mark Twain were also sixes. Pretty cool.)
- Multiple people have told me that I remind them of Darcy Lewis from Thor/WandaVision.
- In addition to writing and blogging, I also run a bookstagram where I post book reviews!
- I love peanut M&Ms a little too much.
Now let’s talk about writing!
I’ve been writing my whole life, but I’m not pursuing publication yet. (At least, not for my novels. I’ve had a few short stories published, but I don’t think that’s quite the same thing!)
So obviously, I don’t have a list of published books for you to check out. But I can give you a rundown of some of my past projects!
- Dystopian novel about a girl who gets sent to the future so she can’t prevent a crime. She has to find a time machine and get back home before her cousin dies.
- Magical realism novel about a girl who discovers she has destructive, uncontrollable magical powers. Then her grandma threatens to murder her unless she gets rid of her powers. And goldfish crackers are involved.
- Many other half-finished novels….
- Also a 72,000 word fanfic that is collecting digital dust on my Google Drive…
My current project is a fantasy novel about a boy who can talk with ghosts, a government trying to rebuild after a devastating collapse, a shapeshifter, and an anarchist who can manipulate emotions.
I finished the first draft during NaNoWriMo 2021, and I’m currently in the revision process.
I write to explore. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with books like The Fairy Realm series by Emily Rodda, where people could just stumble into a magical world. Most of my stories are some form of light fantasy with magical elements.
If I’m not working on my latest project, you can find me researching random facts on the internet. You can also find me eating mac and cheese in my kitchen at 2 AM, crying over the deaths of fictional characters.
I’ve also won a few writing awards!
Finalist in the OYAN Student Novel Contest 2020
First Place in the VCWC Short Story Contest 2019
Honorable Mention in the Acorn Flash Fiction Contest 2019
Second Place in the Californians Poetry Award 2018
First Place in the Acorn Flash Fiction Contest 2017
Thanks for stopping by! Please make sure to follow my blog via email, it’s totally free and I never send spam.
Also, I don’t use Twitter that much any more, but if you’d like to follow me anyway, my handle is @LaurynTrimmer.
If you’d like to know even more about me, check out some of my blog award tags for some fun Q&A posts, featuring myself. prostorybuilders.com/blog-tags/
See you on the blog!
