RTGerardson
Acolyte
Hi everyone.
I already knew about this forum, but never had any interest in registering. Stuff changed and I'm delving more seriously in getting some fiction actually finished. I mainly like to write fantasy, since I prefer creating things that are completely malleable to the greatest extent, instead of setting a story in an already existing world with rules I may not like.
For some detail: I'm a twenty-something from Holland, listener of music that includes people who tend to scream and growl more than they actually sing and if I would have to name a few books that have influenced my preferences and style, I would say Matthias Thulman: Witchhunter, Gotrek and Felix (both Warhammer Fantasy pulp, sue me), the Black Company, A Song of Fire and Ice (no, I don't like the series), the Quiet War (which is SF), the Lies of Locke Lamora, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (which may have started out being SF and well, evolved into gods know what) and several Lovecraft stories. Also, I wasn't able to stomach more than 200 pages of the Lord of the Rings (though I enjoyed the Hobbit) and I stranded halfway the second book of the Wheel of Time cycle.
At the moment I'm reading Shadow Gate, a novel by Kate Elliot (who I have never heard of before that book) and I haven't read Spirit Gate (the book that came before it). I picked it up a few years ago and found it too tedious at the time. At the moment, I have a one and a half hour commute to work by bus, which gives me time to read it. It isn't half bad, but not the regular kind of books I would read (which isn't that bad, really). Before that, I read the Passage, which apparently is also being made into a movie next year (which is strange since I picked the book up for € 5).
So, there you go.
I already knew about this forum, but never had any interest in registering. Stuff changed and I'm delving more seriously in getting some fiction actually finished. I mainly like to write fantasy, since I prefer creating things that are completely malleable to the greatest extent, instead of setting a story in an already existing world with rules I may not like.
For some detail: I'm a twenty-something from Holland, listener of music that includes people who tend to scream and growl more than they actually sing and if I would have to name a few books that have influenced my preferences and style, I would say Matthias Thulman: Witchhunter, Gotrek and Felix (both Warhammer Fantasy pulp, sue me), the Black Company, A Song of Fire and Ice (no, I don't like the series), the Quiet War (which is SF), the Lies of Locke Lamora, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (which may have started out being SF and well, evolved into gods know what) and several Lovecraft stories. Also, I wasn't able to stomach more than 200 pages of the Lord of the Rings (though I enjoyed the Hobbit) and I stranded halfway the second book of the Wheel of Time cycle.
At the moment I'm reading Shadow Gate, a novel by Kate Elliot (who I have never heard of before that book) and I haven't read Spirit Gate (the book that came before it). I picked it up a few years ago and found it too tedious at the time. At the moment, I have a one and a half hour commute to work by bus, which gives me time to read it. It isn't half bad, but not the regular kind of books I would read (which isn't that bad, really). Before that, I read the Passage, which apparently is also being made into a movie next year (which is strange since I picked the book up for € 5).
So, there you go.