okay so, who even is Aurora Moreno?
Great question. I ask myself this a lot, usually around 1am, usually while staring at a blank document that's supposed to have a chapter in it by now. But the short answer: I'm a writer who fell in love with words before I fell in love with anything else, and everything on this website is an attempt to hand you a piece of that love without making it weird. (It might still be a little weird. I contain a lot of glitter and very few filters.)
"Aurora Moreno" isn't the name on my mail, but it's the name that feels true. I picked it because Aurora means dawn — the specific, unbearably hopeful minute before the sun actually shows up, when the sky is doing something it doesn't have to justify to anyone. That's the mood I'm going for. Not fully awake yet. Not apologizing for the color palette. Just becoming, loudly, in pink.
a very scientific timeline of my life
| age | what was happening |
|---|---|
| 7 | wrote my first "novel." it was 4 pages long and starred my cat as a detective. still slaps, honestly. |
| 13 | discovered fanfiction dot net and my whole personality changed overnight |
| 16 | filled an entire notebook with poems about a boy who did not deserve a single stanza of it |
| 19 | finally understood that writing badly on purpose is how you get to writing well eventually |
| 22 | started actually finishing things instead of just starting them. huge era. character development. |
| now | building this website at an hour I will not disclose, powered by tea and spite |
things that are true about me
- I will read the last page of a book first sometimes. I'm not sorry.
- I write best when it's raining, or when I'm pretending it's raining via a very specific playlist.
- I have never once in my life written a to-do list I actually finished, and yet I keep making them, because hope is a discipline.
- I think pink is a personality trait and I will die on this hill, in this dress, holding this pen.
- I cry at the ending of things. Books, shows, seasons, group chats going quiet. All of it. It's a whole thing.
- My favorite sound is a page turning. Second favorite is the little "you've got mail" chime, don't @ me, it's nostalgic and I contain multitudes.
why i write
Because I have never once managed to say the true, embarrassing, enormous things out loud in a way that felt right — but on a page, with enough time and enough drafts, I can get close. Writing is the only place I've found where I get to be as much as I actually am. Not the toned-down, elevator-conversation version of me. The real one, the one who feels a sunset personally, who thinks about the same sentence for four days until it sits right, who will absolutely dedicate 900 words to describing the specific ache of a song you used to love.
I write romance and I write things that are sadder than romance usually allows. I write diary entries I probably shouldn't publish and then publish them anyway (see: the entire diary section of this website). I write because it is the one form of magic I actually have access to, and I intend to use it shamelessly, in public, in pink, for as long as anyone will let me.
if you are looking for the "professional, polished, brand-safe" version of me, this is not that website. that website does not exist. this is the real one, glitter and all.
a completely unnecessary but deeply important quiz result
I took one of those "which font are you" quizzes (as one does, at 1am, instead of sleeping) and got Comic Sans. I was offended for exactly four seconds before realizing: yeah. Underestimated. Deeply earnest. Refuses to be sophisticated on anyone else's terms. Beloved by children and rejected by people with something to prove. Honestly? Iconic. I've made my peace with it. This whole website is basically my Comic Sans era, dressed up in Baloo 2 for special occasions.