Greetings to everybody!
My name is Jose. I am Spanish, although I am now living in the Netherlands. I am a patent examiner by trade (I work for the branch of the European Patent Office located in The Hague) and I was directed to this message board by Howard Tayler, creator of the webcomic "Schlock Mercenary".
I have written some books in the past, Sci-Fi, which I sent to a contest that my University (the Polytechnical University of Catalonia in Barcelona) was holding. One of them was about an A.I. that achieved sentience and the relationship it had with its creator; another was some kind of wacky surreal humorous adventure (or, at least, that is what I was aiming at) about a guy whose boss had himself put into hibernation (to actually escape from a series of people who, for very different reasons, wanted him very dead) and who suddenly finds that he is being hunted by a series of people who, for very different reasons, want him very dead... But they were definitely not what you might call "good"
After those attempts, I concentrated in my studies, went on with life, and ended up working here in the Netherlands.
Now... a friend of mine in Spain is a published author, and reading his work is what finally encouraged me to give another try at writing.
I already have ideas in mind for an alternative-history novel that I think could be rather interesting (at least, after doing some internet research, I have not been able to find anything published on that subject), and I have been trying to put something together.
However... I am writing in Spanish. All of my notes, all of my preliminary writings, everything. I imagine that this would be a problem in this group? Does anybody here speak Spanish to a level that would allow them to perform criticism of anything I might write? (I can read English reasonably well; I think I can reciprocate when it comes to reading and commenting on the writing of other people in English).
Of course, I can translate myself what I write from Spanish into English. Although I don't know if what sounds good in English (after criticism/correction) would sound good in Spanish, and vice versa
In any case... Here I am!
All the best,
JoseB
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