So, I'm new here...

[fcdc]

... and had it suggested by someone whose story I'd reviewed (thanks, starrkers) that since I'd started that flashfic thread below, it would behoove me to introduce myself. So here goes: I'm a 25-year-old graduate student going for my second degree; I already have a master's in English. I follow ice hockey (go New Jersey Devils!).

I write a lot, and I like to think I don't suck too much. I like many different authors: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Jerzy Kosinski, Philip Larkin, Ramsey Campbell, Kurt Vonnegut (RIP), Carl Hiaasen, and James Dickey are particular favorites. I have included sex scenes in previous stuff I've written, but have never written erotica as a subject before signing up here. I have a story I submitted last night, but it hasn't been posted yet. (I'll edit this when it is.)

As a critic, I'm fairly blunt/terse, which undoubtedly comes from years of being a writing tutor in college. I like to think I know what I'm talking about, though.

It's nice to meet you all! Hopefully the flashfic thread and the story I put up interest people.

 

[Dar~]

Welcome. I hope you enjoy your stay. Kick up your feet, you have no idea what you have gotten yourself into . . .

 

[fcdc]

Is that a New Jersey Devil?

I hope it is!

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Is that a New Jersey Devil?

I hope it is!

No. that's me. I'll swallow your soul

 

[glynndah]

A welcome from a tipsy good little witch.

 

[TE999]

I took a shot at your Flashfic thread, dude.

Welcome to the Monkey House.

 

[Belegon]

Welcome aboard, FCDC...

 

[jomar]

Hello, and welcome.

 

[Pure]

welcome

to Ferociously Contained Deviance Control!

your knowledge will be appreciated. i always liked Kosinski, esp. his style, though it appears he did a bit of fictionalizing of his own biography.

will have a look at your story if you post its url, when that is known.

 

[fcdc]

Howdy; missed the Kosinski message. The story I put up on literotica itself hasn't been approved yet, but there's a non-sex scene snippet over in the story critiquing section.

Jerzy was a bizarre and tormented guy, hence the fictionalized biography and Darwin Awards-level suicide, but The Painted Bird, Being There, etc., are strange and lovely stories, however brutal. The former turned me off spoons for a while, though. I will say that much. (Apologies for the repeated mental image.)

 

[impressive]

Welcome to the zoo. Don't step in the elephant shit.

 

[Guest]

Welcome to the zoo. Don't step in the elephant shit.

Well, FC figured out scouries with one post.

Avoided the shit quite easily, apparently.

(Welcome again!)

 

[angelicminx]

...
As a critic, I'm fairly blunt/terse, which undoubtedly comes from years of being a writing tutor in college. I like to think I know what I'm talking about, though.
...

On that note... Very nice to meet you! Hope you like it here in the insane asylum.

 

[BarbarouSevil]

Welcome

'In THAT direction,' the Cat said, waving its right paw round, 'lives a Hatter: and in THAT direction,' waving the other paw, 'lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad.'

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.

'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'

'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.

'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.'

 

[cloudy]

Welcome.

(are you, by chance, a spelling nazi? One can only hope )

 

[FatDino]

Welcome.

(are you, by chance, a spelling nazi? One can only hope )

Are you looking for a *friend* there, cloudy?

FC, have I said welcome yet? Oh well...

Welcome.

 

[BarbarouSevil]

Welcome.

(are you, by chance, a spelling nazi? One can only hope )

Is that an Aaron Spelling nazi? Cause that would be, frankly, way kinky. I'd watch that. Hell, you could even make it about grammar and I'd watch it.

Figaro, BarbarouSevil

 

[FatDino]

Is that an Aaron Spelling nazi? Cause that would be, frankly, way kinky. I'd watch that. Hell, you could even make it about grammar and I'd watch it.

Figaro, BarbarouSevil

Oh my...you just should have seen...

 

[rachlou]

Welcome, FC !

 

[fcdc]

I am a spelling nazi, yes - except for the word 'necessary.' For some reason, I can never get that one right on the first try. I have no idea why.

And bah to the Aaron Spelling nazi. A Tori Spelling nazi would be far more frightening, even though Aaron is dead.

PS When do I get to change the 'Really Experienced' tag line to something oh-so-witty?

 

[FatDino]

PS When do I get to change the 'Really Experienced' tag line to something oh-so-witty?

Oh, you'll be "Really really experienced" when you hit the 300th post, then "Literotica Guru" at the 500th, finally, when you have 1000 posts under your belt, you get to pick your own title.

 

[Nasha]

Hello there, fcdc,

I was already liking your critique style in the Story Feedback forum, and now this mutual affiity for Solzhenitsyn and Kosinski. How do you feel about Mikhail Bulgakov and Viktor Pelevin?

Welcome.

Nasha

 

[fcdc]

Sadly, I haven't read either; my experience with Eastern European lit is not very broad, and basically amounts to 'stuff I picked up when haunting the used bookstore that I found interesting,' so it's piecemeal at best. As far as the Russians: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Pushkin, Gogol, Solzhenitsyn, Pasternak, Chekhov. Regarding Bulgakov, I have been told I would like, and keep on meaning to read, The Master and Margarita (particularly any time I listen to the Rolling Stones). I have yet to get around to it despite owning the book (go figure!) A law curriculum does not let you do many things other than law, I'm afraid. (Only a year to go! Not that I am counting or anything.)

Anything else that's crisply written, has a good style and a distinct voice, and is not Wordsworth or Faulkner (hate them both), please recommend!

ETA: Linkity to the stuff I put up earlier. Be as harsh as you like!

 

[Nasha]

Sadly, I haven't read either; my experience with Eastern European lit is not very broad, and basically amounts to 'stuff I picked up when haunting the used bookstore that I found interesting,' so it's piecemeal at best. As far as the Russians: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Pushkin, Gogol, Solzhenitsyn, Pasternak, Chekhov. Regarding Bulgakov, I have been told I would like, and keep on meaning to read, The Master and Margarita (particularly any time I listen to the Rolling Stones). I have yet to get around to it despite owning the book (go figure!) A law curriculum does not let you do many things other than law, I'm afraid. (Only a year to go! Not that I am counting or anything.)

Right, 'cause when you're a first-year associate working 90 hour weeks, you'll finally have time to catch up on all that extra curricular reading you've been putting off.

Though anyone with any deep understanding of Russian literature might snicker, in my warped little way, I sort of think of Bulgakov being the spawn of Gogol, and Pelevin the spawn of Bulgakov. So do give "The Master and Margarita" a try when you get the chance.

Anything else that's crisply written, has a good style and a distinct voice, and is not Wordsworth or Faulkner (hate them both), please recommend!

It's been a while, so I can't really speak to crispness and style, but "Dog Years" by Gunter Grass blew my mind.

But then again, I adored "A Light in August," so beware.

 

[fcdc]

Right, 'cause when you're a first-year associate working 90 hour weeks, you'll finally have time to catch up on all that extra curricular reading you've been putting off.

I will be in public interest or in-house for a non-law public entity, so I'll have more free time than some dork at a firm, at least. (I'll make a good deal less, but I don't need a lot of cash.)

Though anyone with any deep understanding of Russian literature might snicker, in my warped little way, I sort of think of Bulgakov being the spawn of Gogol, and Pelevin the spawn of Bulgakov. So do give "The Master and Margarita" a try when you get the chance.

It is sitting on my bookshelf glaring at me now. Maybe this weekend, after finals!

It's been a while, so I can't really speak to crispness and style, but "Dog Years" by Gunter Grass blew my mind.

I have read, and liked, some Grass. The Tin Drum, namely. The Waffen SS membership was a shock, and I remember reading about that in the news. Might be interesting to read The Tin Drum again with that in mind.

But then again, I adored "A Light in August," so beware.

PS What do you think about Hermann Hesse, since we're mentioning German authors?