Hello from Seattle

tenuki · Oct 20, 2017

This looks like a fun community, exactly what I need to avoid writing.. I mean, um, help my writing?

Genres: Sci-Fi, Speculative Fiction, Fiction
NaNoWriMo: Yes since 2008
Hobbies: writing, industrial design, game development, sailing, playing jazz and experimental music, cooking, gardening, and way too many others to list.
Day Job: Software and Systems
Writing since: mumble mumble early 80s mumble mumble
Read: anything with words. partial to sci-fi, literature, biographies, science
Beta Read: yes, but limited time

MaeZe · Oct 20, 2017

Hello from Bellevue. Like your intro.

Chase · Oct 20, 2017

After you wave to Mae in Bellevue, turn 90 degrees to your right, look along The Nickel (I-5), and see me waving :hi:

from Albany, Oregon. Hard to see me? I'll tie a handkerchief to my cane. :flag:

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Cobalt Jade · Oct 21, 2017

Hello from a fellow Seattleite!

Chase, how's the new carousel doing? I visited when the workshop was still based in the old building, the one that was demolished.

Denevius · Oct 21, 2017

Only been to Seattle once for a fencing tournament many, many years ago.

Welcome!

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hayaku · Oct 21, 2017

Greetings

Interesting combination of professions/hobbies. Would make for interesting Sci Fi concepts I'd imagine!

Chase · Oct 23, 2017

Cobalt Jade said:
Chase, how's the new carousel doing?

CJ, it's complete and in operation. What a beauty! It's attracted a record number of visitors for any downtown attraction.

Some at the nearby ~~old folks'~~ senior center miss all the parking we once had, but not all of us.

When you visit next, be prepared for back-in parking everywhere, including the post office. Not only seniors don't like it, but Kay and I are okay with it because it makes the best use of space (and we learned how to back up on the farm) :greenie

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Daffyjkl · Oct 23, 2017

Hello tenuki, welcome. What do you do in terms of game development? Computer games? RPGs? Board games?

catesquire · Oct 23, 2017

Welcome, Tenuki! I like to imagine you doing all those hobbies simultaneously...

Any projects you're workin' on currently?

tenuki · Oct 23, 2017

Daffyjkl said:
Hello tenuki, welcome. What do you do in terms of game development? Computer games? RPGs? Board games?

I've been working in Unity3D making a RPG/puzzle/story/retro game that uses natural language processing (AI) to create believable chat experiences with virtual NPCs - I'm way over my head on this. I play 3d RPGs a lot and am sick and tired of dialog trees... I've also dabbled designing a board game I plan on moving to mobile app once I work the kinks out - that is definitely a work in progress.

tenuki · Oct 23, 2017

MaeZe said:
Hello from Bellevue. Like your intro.

Thanks! Wow, this is a more active writers forum than the one I was on that will go unnamed.

Chase said:
After you wave to Mae in Bellevue, turn 90 degrees to your right, look along The Nickel (I-5), and see me waving from Albany, Oregon. Hard to see me? I'll tie a handkerchief to my cane.

!

Thanks for the welcome. Been through your town many many times on the way to CA.

Cobalt Jade said:
Hello from a fellow Seattleite!
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Howdy.

Denevius said:
Only been to Seattle once for a fencing tournament many, many years ago.

Welcome!

Fencing! I've done a little Kendo, always fascinated by fencing.

hayaku said:
Greetings

Interesting combination of professions/hobbies. Would make for interesting Sci Fi concepts I'd imagine!

It makes for less time to write. :/ I've always been interested in everything, makes getting good at something hard.

catesquire said:
Welcome, Tenuki! I like to imagine you doing all those hobbies simultaneously...

Any projects you're workin' on currently?

Just a novel - hope to start my second in the series this upcoming nanowrimo.

catesquire · Oct 23, 2017

Yay, novel! What's it about?

MaeZe · Oct 23, 2017

Chase said:
CJ, it's complete and in operation. What a beauty! It's attracted a record number of visitors for any downtown attraction.....

Assuming there is only one carousel in Albany, wow, what gorgeous animals! Next time I drive through your town I will have to stop and see it.

tenuki · Oct 23, 2017

catesquire said:
Yay, novel! What's it about?

Not ready to share too many details or reading betas yet - but it's a SciFi novel written in a bit of an experimental style - think 'Dalgren' or 'Gravity's Rainbow' but not as well written - with a unreliable narrator who thinks he can 'decide' the future at certain points. It's unclear if he is delusional or actually has this ability.

catesquire · Oct 23, 2017

Sounds fun. <3

Chase · Oct 24, 2017

tenuki said:
Not ready to share too many details or reading betas yet - but it's a SciFi novel written in a bit of an experimental style - think 'Dalgren' or 'Gravity's Rainbow' but not as well written - with a unreliable narrator who thinks he can 'decide' the future at certain points. It's unclear if he is delusional or actually has this ability.

Sorry for the derails. Writing what you want and how you want is fun. The best of luck with your secret experiment. (Sounds a bit like the old black and white films based on H.G. Wells' lab thriller, The Invisible Man. All five lab experiments-gone-wrong play on TV this time of year.) :greenie

ktzeee · Oct 26, 2017

Welcome! I've heard Seattle is very rainy, haha.

tenuki · Oct 27, 2017

ktzeee said:
Welcome! I've heard Seattle is very rainy, haha.

Yes, we all tell people that so they don’t move here. It’s really fabulous. But ya, it does rain a lot. I like it.

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