chrispenycate
Sage
Umm, hello? Only been writing for a couple of years, sound engineer (retired), both studio and live, possibly too science fiction based and not fantasy enough to fit in here (even my dragons would agree with me there).
Good at worldbuilding, getting a handle on characterisation (or perchance my characters are getting a handle on authorisation), can drive an idea over the event horizon into alternative universes, but not great at plotting. And, having spent the last forty years outside the English speaking zone, my language has taken a rather odd path. Unfortunately I have no intention of modifying this.
cons:- Pedant, grammarian, know it all, almost unpublished, drastically poor keyboard skills (I write everything longhand on paper. That way it gets a preliminary edit on being typed into the machine.
pros:- prose (as against poetry, though I'm a decent songsmith), extensive vocabulary (although that should possibly be classed under the "cons"), unusual way of looking at the world. Widely read and quite widely travelled.
Possible uses:- A wide range of technological detail; I've had a room in a mediaeval château, worked with a traditional blacksmith, learnt lots about things other than which mic to use on a kick drum. Grammar and punctuation I absorbed with my mother's milk. And you don't do forty-five years in the music business without absorbing some rhythm.
That's enough to be going on with. How do I upload my avatar? I'm not that good on these new-fangled computer thingies (in my days, they didn't have screens and keyboards (waves walking stick). Punch cards, from card punches and to dot matrix printers. Can't even see attachments on this…
Good at worldbuilding, getting a handle on characterisation (or perchance my characters are getting a handle on authorisation), can drive an idea over the event horizon into alternative universes, but not great at plotting. And, having spent the last forty years outside the English speaking zone, my language has taken a rather odd path. Unfortunately I have no intention of modifying this.
cons:- Pedant, grammarian, know it all, almost unpublished, drastically poor keyboard skills (I write everything longhand on paper. That way it gets a preliminary edit on being typed into the machine.
pros:- prose (as against poetry, though I'm a decent songsmith), extensive vocabulary (although that should possibly be classed under the "cons"), unusual way of looking at the world. Widely read and quite widely travelled.
Possible uses:- A wide range of technological detail; I've had a room in a mediaeval château, worked with a traditional blacksmith, learnt lots about things other than which mic to use on a kick drum. Grammar and punctuation I absorbed with my mother's milk. And you don't do forty-five years in the music business without absorbing some rhythm.
That's enough to be going on with. How do I upload my avatar? I'm not that good on these new-fangled computer thingies (in my days, they didn't have screens and keyboards (waves walking stick). Punch cards, from card punches and to dot matrix printers. Can't even see attachments on this…
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