I've been thinking about signing up here for a while, but I've always been enrolled in other workshops, and I really do write – and review – very slowly, so two workshops would likely prove one and a half too many. Anyway, I'm not a paying member yet but I plan on becoming one as soon as this profoundly demoralizing semester (statistics, anyone?) is officially over. English isn't my first language but I'm working on our relationship, and I find workshops extremely helpful in this regard because – beyond getting feedback on my own texts – it gives me an excuse to study other texts rather than just reading them.
What else? I'm 26, currently living in northern Sweden but looking forward to putting some distance between myself and the polar circle in a couple of weeks. My close friends give me salt licorice, geeky anthologies, whiskey and Danish jewelry for Christmas. My closest friends let me talk them into vacationing in Romania instead of Greece, and they never hesitate to partake in my ritualistic biannual Deadwood re-watch.
I'm looking forward to tapping into this community, getting involved in the workshop, and, hopefully, getting to know some of you.
/Linda
Welcome Linda, any fan of Deadwood is a friend of mine. Browse the boards, write, read, b.s. but most importantly, don't be shy.
Welcome!
You aren't a native English speaker? Goddamn, you have a better grasp of it than most native speakers I know. So, yeah, welcome!
Welcome to this place, Linda. I wish you luck here.
Welcome, Linda!
Gesundheit!
Welcome to LitReactor!
Welcome.
Vacationing in Romania? How did that go?
Welcome!
I dunno, aren't swedes tall blonde people? This sounds very suspicious. Are you sure you are not Romanian hoodwinking us into thinking you're Swedish? Yes, this must be what it is, you are a Romanian travel agent living in Sweden to suborn Swedish dollars from the innocents who would otherwise support the freedom debtors of Greece. I have this figured out. I will be watching you closely with one eye in the back of my head. Like there is such a thing as southern Sweden. I am wise to your scheme.
Welcome! I think you'll find that a grasp of the English language isn't so much necessary for writing in English. Just look at Mary Higgins Clark.
If she was Romanian wouldn't she have the same accent as me? Thought of that Fport??
@Liana, of course, I hear it now in my head, clearly, or is that that vampire story I just critiqued?
btw, I no longer roll my R's, but I strangely roll all the other letters.
I no longer roll my R's, but I strangely roll all the other letters.
They have cockroaches, and their public transportation can't handle a snowstorm.
Jesus why can't I be this clever in any language?
Is cockroaches in the south some stereotype I'm not aware of?
Finns and Swedes are fond of each other like the Irish are the English.
I think.
Welcome to the Lit Linda
What about the Danes? There's the Sweedish character in Lars von Trier's The Kingdom, screaming from the rooftop: Danish scum!
I've heard Denmark is where it's at. Sweden, Iceland, and Norway are where it is also at, but slightly less of it. Finland is not where it is at. This is what I've heard, but I only talk to jerks who don't know anything.
Welcome!
I might be doing a semester abroad in Iceland next year, so I'll be sure to be on the lockout for what it is, so I can clarify that Iceland is, in deed, where it's at.
Dwayne, most of the Southern people I know would survive the nuclear war they're trying so hard to incite.
(Yes, I took that joke from American Dad. Fucking sue me.)
May hap you know too much.
Pierce arrives with his father, Cornelius, and introduces him to the group.
Cornelius: These are you friends, Pierce? Minorities? Jewesses? And the unseasonably tanned?
Britta: That is inappropriate! And maybe you'll give that more weight since I'm whiiiiiite!
Cornelius: You've got a wide brow. What are you? Scandinavian?
Britta: Yeah! Swedish!
Cornelius: (spitting on the ground) Swedish dogs! Your blood is tainted by generations of race mixing with Laplanders! You're basically Finns!
Shirley: Oh my goodness. He's like the Abed of racism.
Welcome to Lit, Linda. Can not have enough Swedes here.
/Klas