Or just call me hey you. I've been writing for years....more than half my life, since I was about 10-12. I took part in NaNo two times, won both times. By the way. The name is Pant-a-LOON-EE-s The extra E noise in pantaloons is one of those things you just have to imagine...the opposite of a silent letter. The short of it is: I enjoy making up names and words. Hello everyone!
I have decided I like you. I like strange, see. Us new people need to stick together... Before the less-new people get us... yeah... I didn't finish my NaNoWriMo attempt the one time I tried. That was years ago though. It's better that way, honest. I might be incompetent these days, but my stuff back then was seriously shocking. What stuff do you write?
Shocking? I don't really know how to really describe what I write. O_O! I'm working on a bit of a surrealist Fantasy/sci-fi type thing. Well to our nation it seems surreal.
Shocking as in terrible. Likely to be an english expression now that I think of it. Also one that is very dependant on non-verbal cues... Anyway, that's probably cleared up now. Moving on! I'm unfamiliar with Surrealist, yet mixed with Fantasy it should be extremely interesting. I'm very much fantasy myself. (That said, I like to think my work has a gritty horror/dark edge. Whether this is true is dubious...)
no I understand the meaning of the word it's more how it was shocking? The novel I'm working on now is a result of a nano that I shaved bunches off and rewrote....numerous times. My novel isn't truly surreal. It more lies in the details. Things that would be outrageous and almost surreal for a person from the US or UK.
Oh. Hurr durr... Well, it was just bad. In every sense of the word: I literally just regurgitated cliches and badness on an unfortunate word document, with no regard to characters, plot, theme... Suffice to say I 'shaved off' the whole thing, and am working on something newer. -- What's truly surreal, and when does 'fantasy' become 'surreal'?
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