Snarkangel

New member incoming! I'm John D. Hughes (the D. stands for 'not the Hollywood director') and I write all sorts of things. Done so for years. When I was younger, it was just for the fun of it, and it never went anywhere. In fact, most of my writing is for the fun of it; what I really like doing is maps. My previous project is a fantasy-based German Unification parallel, in which there were about a hundred different city states to keep track of. This is now the setting for my Pathfinder game, but that is neither here nor there, because I discovered something very important. I hate writing fantasy. It's true! While I love little more than reading good fantasy - and this would probably be a good time to name-drop my very favourite authors; R. Scott Bakker and China Mieville -, and my imagination runs wild with fantasy plots, I never write them because I don't enjoy it. I enjoy writing sci-fi/horror. So I abandoned fantasy Germany and started a new project, with mind-snapping, hyperluminal space whale monsters with cities in their stomachs for everyone (shut up, I like China Mieville and H.P. Lovecraft, okay?)! I'm still grasping at the basic tenants of the genre - I've only been going a month now - but thus far I am enjoying the writing process infinitely more than I ever have before. I've always had a macabre bent to my writing, but now I spend a great deal of time wallowing, rather than indulging, in the dark and twisted. Most of my writing will require all four content tags, I think. I also read a lot of non-fiction, but I don't think that counts for much here.