1. Alex R. Encomienda

    Alex R. Encomienda Contributor Contributor

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    Where are all my fellow writers in foreign countries?

    Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by Alex R. Encomienda, Feb 14, 2017.

    Good morning, beautiful writers!

    I would love to see how your country has shaped your writing style. Perhaps you should post a paragraph of your latest piece right here in this thread! Yay? Yay!

    How has your country contributed to inspiration (if any contribution) and how has your environment been? Has any of your background incorporated itself in your work? Please do share!
     
  2. Tenderiser

    Tenderiser Not a man or BayView

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    I'm from and live in England, but I just wrote a book set at Loch Ness in Scotland. I've always been a fan of the Loch Ness Monster. :)

    I think my books are very English, but I couldn't really write any other way!
     
  3. Alex R. Encomienda

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    That's very interesting! I heard tales of the Loch Ness Monster and the possible theories of what it may be. I'm sure you've seen that ridiculous picture of the elephant underwater hahaha.
     
  4. Simpson17866

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    My guess is they're in foreign countries :cool:
     
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    I don't know where you're from so have no idea if I'm 'foreign'.
     
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    course you are, all you folk down there are upside down for a start...
     
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    We're the Demogorgon? :eek:
     
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    Australia is definitely foreign.
     
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    I'm a foreigner everywhere these days.
     
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    I'm not a foreigner yet but the People's Republic of New Hampshire is working on seceding from the rest of these lesser United States, so stay tuned there. We haven't quite decided on any themes for the writing of our new republic. I'm thinking snow and drinking to start.
     
  11. Spencer1990

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    All thirty-five of you guys? :rofl:
     
  12. Homer Potvin

    Homer Potvin A tombstone hand and a graveyard mind Staff Supporter Contributor

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    Naw, there's at least 2000 of us... once we eliminate the three roads it'll be hard to get in without a snowcat... I do expect the population to swell rapidly though... I've already begun to mine the property...
     
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    My dad was from Framingham (not New Hampshire, but close). We used to go there every summer when I was a kid. Haven't been back in a decade, though.
     
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  14. Alex R. Encomienda

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    I grew up in southern Arizona. There are lots of Mexican families in our community and on the weekends I play my Gipsy Kings records and drink sangria. I suppose the inspirations come from tales of my not so wealthy family and their cochinos in southern Phoenix.
     
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    I'm British, though my Dad is from Northern Ireland. I was born a legal alien and moved countries four times in the first nine years of my life.
     
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    Uk here. Grew up in Wales but now living in England. I never really thought about it but now that I do, it's obvious how much my environment feeds my writing. My stories are mostly set in temperate, green climes with lots of rain. If I write fantasy, my heores are more likely to be battling through wind and rain than enduring the heat of the desert. Some people have said my writer's voice is 'a bit reserved and overly self-explanatory', which fits the British bill!

    @S A Lee , nah, you're from London. That's a nation unto itself!
     
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    @Silent Lion I live in London now, but I have no family that is from there. I just moved there because my bf works in software and that's the best place for him to find work.
     
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    London is pretty great for tech work. I have a friend commuting to London and he earns silly money. Tbh, I think I'm a little too easily overwhelmed to live in a big city, but if I had to pick one it'd be London in a hertbeat.
     
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    I'm English born and bred, but from a Scottish father so spent many a holiday up there. Also lived in Spain for a few years, so have a feel for the Mediterranean lifestyle but my writing is firmly influenced by my English heritage, as my characters time-travel to different historic periods of UK history. As yet, I haven't decided whether they can travel abroad though I do like the idea of them being able to.
     
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    Iain, my twin soul that I didn't know I had lost. Yes. I feel the sentiment. Stranger in a strange land no matter where I set foot.

    Regardless, to answer the OP, I come from (and live in) a land that reflects my own personal state. It's part of Latin America, but also not part. Begrudgingly included, but always at the end of the list. Scorned by the rest of our Latin brethren for our insouciant embracing of anglicismos, africanismos, tainoismos, etc. An island of limbo in a sea of turquoise water and white-sugar sands.


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    I'm English - sophisticated English in Sussex, and not scum like @Moose on his tractor. My father were a Yorkshireman, talked all manly ways, a proper Yorkshireman, though I talk more twatly - depending on my audience really. Hereabouts I use folk voice, man of the people voice. We lived in many foreign countries during my lifetime - Holland - I am a nederphile. Also, I am the only person on this forum to have seen the Shah of Iran in the flesh, I dine [in] on the anecdote. An expert on California having visited before I lost my passport. So I understand Americans, and am seen as the regular forum advisor, probably an authority.

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    I grew up in Montreal and am now retired in rural Nova Scotia. Montreal is a city of freedom in every conceivable way (well, you know, most ways). What a surprise to move to Nova Scotia and find clamps on people's heads.

    I don't censor my thoughts very much. Writing takes me back to Montreal, in a way.
     
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    BayView Huh. Interesting. Contributor

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    I'm Canadian - probably about half of my books are set here, the others in the US.

    I'm not sure how my citizenship has affected my writing - I don't do the typical Canadian literary novel, with snow and loneliness and misery/incest/beastiality, that's for sure...
     

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