General Background
I was born in 1994 in Texas. I am the middle child of three. In the company of my parents and two brothers, I visited a variety of countries, living in three of them on multiple occasions; the United States, Canada and the Netherlands. These many moves resulted in me learning multiple languages throughout my youth and mastering them in adulthood.
Eventually we settled and stayed in the north of the Netherlands. Here I completed my high school education and went to a university of applied sciences. I got a bachelor’s in business with a specialty in sustainability. Ever since, I have been unsuccessfully job hunting. Since that isn’t going well, I decided to set my sights on writing seriously.
My Writing Journey
My love for books sprouted when I discovered how to use words. I’d staple paper together and write stories in them (much of it misspelled) and drew accompanying pictures. I eventually had a cardboard box, tucked behind the couch in the living room, filled with these little books. My parents encouraged my creative endeavors.
As the years progressed and my spelling and vocabulary grew, I began to write more extensively. I still drew accompanying pictures, but I was more focused on words. The stories weren’t great, of course, but I honed my ability even then.
In middle school in the United States, I met an English teacher who assigned story writing assignments very regularly. This encouraged me to practice my writing in English. Ever since that year, I never truly stopped. My first long-form story was full of tropes and plagiarized from franchises I liked. But I loved venturing into that world and writing endlessly. I had countless notebooks full of this story.
A few years after starting this long-form story, my mother got a laptop. She encouraged me to transfer the story to her laptop in a document. It felt good to type out and correct things as I went. I often asked if I could borrow her laptop. When we made our final move back to the Netherlands, my notebooks were boxed up and on a ship. So, I free wrote; using my mother’s laptop with her permission.
At 15, I got my first laptop of my own. My writing took off since I had unlimited access. I wrote stories, poems, songs and books. I took part in NaNoWriMo, back when that was still a popular thing. I had many novels written out, start to finish.
Now, in my 30s, I think it’s time to seriously offer my imagination to the world. The long-form story where it all started with, has gone through so many alterations that it is a completely different story. Its spirit remains, however, and it still inspires me all these years later. So it, and many other stories, I intend to send out into the world.
57 Facts About Me
- I am a cat lady.
- My favorite tea is jasmine.
- The rustling of trees is a tantalizing sound.
- I was raised trilingual.
- I have dual citizenship (USA and Netherlands).
- I wrote my first acknowledgements page for my first book before I was even a quarter done.
- In my youth, I was a horse girl.
- I have spatial synesthesia.
- My spirit animal is the phoenix.
- I am traditionally published.
- I have been a vegetarian since 2004.
- I enjoy Italian cuisine.
- I am a wonderful cook.
- My body produces insufficient melatonin naturally.
- My sun sign is Aquarius.
- My moon and rising signs are both Leo.
- I have no depth perception.
- My left eye is made of glass.
- My favorite genre to read and write is fantasy.
- I am demisexual.
- I harbor an unnatural level of loathing for doing dishes.
- A pet peeve of mine is the clicking sound from a mouse (I use a silent one).
- I started playing guitar at 16 and still have my first guitar.
- My preferred forms of exercise are swimming, dru yoga and working out at the women’s gym.
- I dearly hope we will end up in a solarpunk future. That’d be rad(iant).
- I’ve suffered from chronic sinusitis since I was about 14.
- It makes me really uncomfortable when I have to sit properly on a chair for extended periods; I prefer having my feet up.
- I’m an environmentalist and feminist.
- My lucky number is 3.
- I’ve been imagining a board game about ships and a kraken.
- I thrive in summer heat.
- I was born with a rare genetic mutation.
- Because of that mutation, I have to get MRIs and sonograms annually.
- My hatred for social media never ceases.
- I value meaningfulness over happiness.
- My natural gait was altered permanently since I partook in jazz ballet as a child.
- I enjoy composing music, lyrics especially.
- For three years, I wrote a poem every week.
- I prefer to agree with someone, rather than arguing with them.
- I delight in shiny gemstones, my favorites are amethysts, citrines and red/purple rubilites.
- I’m familiar with functional anhedonia.
- I’ve been building my own fantasy TTRPG since 2020.
- My wardrobe is composed of cool and dark colors.
- I inherited a caffeine sensitivity from my mom.
- I keep a notebook of unique words I use per writing session to have a fun record.
- I keep urns with ashes of the cats that passed away, as well as special jewelry with ashes.
- I despised school growing up.
- I tend to read books as audiobooks through Kobo.
- It brings me joy to sing and dance.
- Tristin R. F. Worth is a pseudonym.
- I have very resilient fair skin, yet I still wear SPF consistently (and you should too).
- I dream of seeing the Eiffel Tower at night.
- Ideally, I’d also like to see the Northern Lights someday.
- I’ve always felt a week should be eight days, because seven is impossible to divide nicely.
- Gothic style clothing absolutely slays, but I dare not try and rock it myself.
- I appreciate square furniture with straight lines.
- All notifications on my phone are disabled, except phone calls.
- I experience numerical compulsions when I see numbers.