Describe Latw PIAT here.
That would possibly be simpler if I wasn't a huge introvert...
So I'll let you do it instead!
So... I'm a Norwegian student, with interests ranging from obscure tabletop WWII wargames from the eighties with rulebooks the size of two capital city phonebooks, post-cyberpunk animated series, obscure post-apocalyptic Japanese comic books,
Stanley Kubrick, Infinty Engine eRPGs, Hard
Science Fiction and
interesting uses of tropes and cliches
Articles I wrote:
Stuff I write:
Things I like, in no particular order:
Vandalism Comments, by Tropers:
QQQQQ has a lot to say, so he gets a folder all for himself
- Remember that suggestion I made to you about Tom Clancy, and on his diction regarding violence? Perhaps I should have said that's what not to do. It might sound fine at first, contemplating Dirk Mc Toughguy's Mac-Ar-M249 assault-machine-shot-rifle laser-model telescoping sight extended-magazine, but really though it's padding to the story and most likely all the description would be skimmed over with. This is not to say that looking over violence and relating technology is bad, but not more than what is really necessary. For actual good examples that it could pay to emulate, or at least contemplate, I suggest you might look at the following:
- Considering that you write techno-thrillers for the geeky clique (which I'm not part of, sadly), it still pays to put a good story above the Stephenson-like discourses about a boggling concept (like Sumerian mythology or Toilet Paper). After all, technology tickles the mind for a short while, but it is the story, and the wondrous characters that everyone will go to remember. In short:
- Reason for all this is because I'm very interested in seeing an Alternate History of Gi TS carried out to its very end, and I like seeing both series together as Adam and Eve of something wonderful. Now I'm done. — QQQQQ
- Latw PIAT: Eh, over the last eight months or so, I feel that I've matured a lot as a writer, so I'm also figuring out what works and what doesn't; for long descriptions, this means I'm now actively using them where I feel they're appropriate, rather than putting them there to flawdly emulate Neal Stephenson's style. As for setting merger, I feel that while I'm using a lot both settings, they're not really compatible (which means it comes down to characters, which isn't too bad) but if you really want to seer a Ghost in the Shell elseworlds I'll have to get back to you about that Ghost in the Shell/Deus Ex crossover I was threatened on my life to write. (nonspecific Neon Genesis Evangelion elseworlds you shouldn't have to come to me for.)
This does however mean that the TGoE-plot you know stuff about is
nothing like the current GitE-plot, which is a really fun and
Mind Screwy one.
