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Aury

aurywallington

About Me

My earliest memory is the day I turned five. My mom brought out a pillowcase filled with presents, and when she turned it upsidedown and shook it, it looked like a million gifts spilled out, an endless river of amazing things. There were probably really only five or six presents total, but to me it looked like the happiness would never end.Now when I write, I always try to think of my pen being like that pillowcase -- holding an infinite stream of perfect words, each more exciting and brightly wrapped than the one before it. Sometimes it works, and writing's the greatest thing in the world. But usually it doesn't work, and then instead of getting any jokes down on the page, I just sit there in a gloomy cloud of procrastination, wondering why no one ever gives me presents anymore.

My Interests

teaching tricks to my dog, Tuesday (he just learned "high five!"), driving downtown with my friends to get fish tacos at this little stand called Senor Fish, pilates, which I just started doing a month ago and sort of hate except I'm starting to have abs for the first time in my life, so I also sort of love it, getting up really early in the morning, just before it gets light, and sitting outside on my balcony and watching the coyotes run up and down my street

I'd like to meet:

F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1924.

Movies:

Y Tu Mama Tambien, Fight Club, GI Jane, Bring It On, About A Boy, The Rachel Papers, Taps, The Sound of Music, Riding With Giants, Bend It Like Beckham, Escape From Witch Mountain, The Sure Thing, Enchanted April, Singles, Divided We Fall, The Rules of Attraction

Television:

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Prison Break, Heroes, Gilmore Girls, The Amazing Race, Scrubs, House, Grey's Anatomy, America's Next Top Model, The Office, Supernatural, Toolbelt Diva

Books:

Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging (Louise Rennison), Fool on the Hill (Matt Ruff), Emma Who Saved My Life (Wilton Barnhardt), The Secret History (Donna Tartt), The Road Home (Ellen Emerson White), The Golden Compass (Phillip Pullman), Victory Over Japan (Ellen Gilchrist), Middlesex (Jeffery Eugenedies), Anywhere but Here (Mona Simpson), Cowboys Are My Weakness (Pam Houston), anything by Kristen Kemp, anything by Sarah Dessen, anything by Thomas Perry

Heroes:

Meg Cabot, Cesar Milan, Darren Star, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Miss Alli, Phillip Gourevitch, Wallace Stevens, Daisy Zamora, Bel Kaufman, Pablo Neruda

My Blog

heroin for the Heroes addict

my new novel, "Heroes: Saving Charlie" hit bookstore shelves a couple days ago, which is completely exciting. I've gotten some amazing reviews and feedback (celebritycafe.com called it "heroin for th...
Posted by Aury on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:05:00 PST

my cool news!

Exciting news! I'm writing a novel based on the amazingly-awesome TV show Heroes! NBC just released this announcement:NEW YORK, -- September 18, 2007 -- Del Rey, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the ...
Posted by Aury on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:25:00 PST

why are there dog testicles in my closet?

I recently lost my job, and after three days of moping around the house feeling sorry for myself, I realized the only thing worse than being unemployed is being unemployed in a really messy apartment....
Posted by Aury on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:23:00 PST

the war against clappy clown

another tragic true story from my insane dating life...I met Andrew in the emergency room at Beth Israel Hospital. I was waiting for the doctors to convince my friend Nina that you cant get ebola from...
Posted by Aury on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:17:00 PST

how to write for TV

I've been getting lots of email asking how to break in to TV, so I thought I'd reprint an article here, which I wrote a couple of years ago for Writer's Digest Magazine, which has been reprinted a bun...
Posted by Aury on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:01:00 PST

you call yourself a writer?!

If you want a true lesson in humility, walk up to a complete stranger and tell him that you earn your living writing sitcoms. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, his response will be, ..How come your...
Posted by Aury on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:32:00 PST

personals

hey, this is a tragic (but funny, I think!) true story I wrote a little while ago. about looking for love in NYC. ..Anyone promising?.. Henry asks, handing me a beer then crowding next to me on the c...
Posted by Aury on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:48:00 PST

names

A lot of people have asked me where I came up with the name ..Marit.. for the main character in POP!, and it made me realize there..s a story behind every character..s name in the book...Marit.. .. I ...
Posted by Aury on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:06:00 PST

POP!

When I was in seventh grade, I was madly in love with my lab partner in science class, a boy named Mark. He had no idea how I felt, and there was no way I was going to tell him. Instead, I made up a...
Posted by Aury on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 03:58:00 PST