Yay! It’s the start of M&M Week
I’m very lucky to have lots of talented, wisdomous, writerly friends. Many of these good people share common interests, but don’t know each other...yet. Not all of them are on Live Journal. Some have accounts (or in the case of LJ users, additional accounts) on Twitter, Facebook, Blogspot etc.
With that in mind, I thought it might be fun to host ( Read more... )
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I remember you talking about that workshop. My Dutch is almost as bad as my English. What's koniginnendag? Is that King's day or something?
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or perhaps name day--i'll google and see what i find
OOPS! The Queen's birthday
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koninginnedag
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and that I flunked German twice before giving up on it,
I made a pretty good guess there...
:)
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Ok, so about me. My name is Elizabeth Hull and I live in Western Canada, just to the east of the Rockies. I am Senior Managing Editor of Flash Me Magazine.(Thanks for the kind words Jon, Jennifer put them on our worksite for everyone not on LJ to see.)
I write Science-Fantasy, Sci Fi and Fantasy and am a veteran member of OWW, going back to the Del Rey days, when it was free. I have two books currently doing the rounds, one a science fantasy and one a fantasy. I have a slew of shorts out on submission and have had two sales this year.
For the record, I don't write under my legal name, since that has been taken earlier by a very nice lady. She also spells her middle name exactly the same as I do. Anyhow, my shorts are sent out with the byline of E.Hull as a goodly number of my friends call me E anyhow.
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Guess it's a good name:)
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on my attempt to relate WWII from a German bomber pilot's persepctive.
Hopefully, you will have taken quite a liking to me by then.
;)
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I was thinking more just the German part of it.
Things like holding one's thumbs,
rather than crossing one's fingers.
Anyway, this passage is from my War Correspondant novel.
Just to give you an idea of my perspective,
which is exceptionally unamerican.
By the time we had arrived at the crash site in High Salvington, the swastikas on the upright of the Heinkel’s tail had already been hacked away, and the contrast of these comparatively clean cuts against the surface punctured by sweeping perforations of machine-gun spray made them appear tidy; almost surgically precise. Throughout the two-hour drive, I had imagined myself counting the bullet holes. That there could be over four hundred of them seemed incredible. Now that I saw those holes, I realized that four hundred was actually a very conservative estimate. I had expected the downed German bomber to look like swiss cheese, but it was more like a cheese grater. There were not a few random holes distributed casually, but repeated maniacal patterns of countless shots ( ... )
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I am glad to hear Jon's community is international. Americans have such an isolated compass, but the internet can help us change all that.
I saw a movie last night from Sweden (As it is in heaven) in which the church choir took a bus ride to Germany. Cool. I can't imagine taking a bus ride and crossing multiple language zones.
I am really skimpy on LJ but maybe Jon's urging will get me going.
Jerry
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We already follow each other on LJ, but, hello again! It's nice to get some more info on everyone. :)
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