Literary preferences
- I tend to prefer to read stories that lean on realism (In a general sense, not the genre, so a fantasy can still be realist) with flawed characters and social critique.
- Still, I generally like sci fi. Be it talc soft, diamond hard, or somewhere in between.
General writing style (In my mind I'm influenced by Machado de Assis' style, but if I said that, his body would roll in his grave and his ghost would haunt me for all eternity. So I'll describe what I think I recognize of my general style (Anyone that sees a mistake, feel free to correct it)):
- I like to give a voice to the narrator, (The narrator not only shows the action, but also talk with the reader, to a certain extent on most, if not all of my stories).
- I like to give an established psychology to the characters, and do my best to make them act in the boundaries of such a psychology, unless some fact in the story changes that psychology.
- A common theme in most of my stories is the difference between appearances and reality (an apparent democracy in 2084, an apparent alien invasion in Notroswellville, an apparent asylum for mildly insane in We are All Mad, etc). This is intentional, I like that theme.
List of stories I started (completed)
- 2084
- Snowy
- Coincidence! I swear
- Notroswellville
- Category:The Paradox Before Christmas
- We are all mad
- Identity Crisis
- Burros (Asses)
- Divine Promotion
- Stanley the Satanist
- The Little Things
- Brave Men
- The Foggiest
- A Sunny Thursday Morning
- Ye magnificente beggininge of Brazile
- Uncle Chauncee...and Friends!
- Envious
- Modernist Poems with Spam - It's not complete, but as long as administrators do their job too well and I can't do my poetry before they delete, this'll be it.
- Chronicles of Kings and Knights
List of stories I started (incomplete)
Not started yet:
- Something in the future, featuring corporations and cybernetics, but in a punk way. wink wink nudge nudge.
- Some World War II thing era in the POV of a Gestapo officer. A HALF-CRAZY Gestapo officer. That hear voices. Voices of famous German men. To be more exact: Nietzsche, Martin Luther, Goethe, Hegel, Marx and, of course the Führer. Then name it Zeitgeist. That would rule.
- Something about an alchemist in the middle ages, drawing parallels with contemporary scientists.
- I had this groovy dream. After the usual "Ghost trying to stop you from sleeping so that you can't dream about fallen bins", I had a dream with more plot than most, and that I, luckily could remember well: I was a nurse/doctor of some sort in a hospital taking care of a telepathic kid that said some respected doctor was a "bad man", and I saw, with a nice bodiless camera, that some other doctor/nurse died in the hospital the night before, then it was night, and I was in some dark room, hidden, the doctor appeared and fighting ensued. I'm sure I can adapt it to a nice story, happening in a African voluntary hospital.
- "Chronicles of Gold and Gadgets", "Chronicles of Bombs and Bullets" "Chronicles of science and sorcery". (three stories set in the same fantasy world in different time periods (Steampunk, urban fantasy and Science Fantasy respectively)).
- Something making fun of an idealized view of the world. With an optimistic and cheerful poetic narrator retelling the stories the woman he secretly loved and kidnapped told him, in order to buy time until she managed to break his spine (luckily she didn't need one thousand and one nights).
- Semi-hard sci fi with AIs, interplanetary colonies, cold war and aliens in a not so far future. (I even wrote a short timeline from now to then while my connection was down).
- The idea from brainstorm! (When it's more developed)
- 19th-century narrator, who believes in crazy things like phrenology, homoeopathy and spontaneous generation.
- Something on mythology.
- Brazilian-themed fantasy world.
- Alternative history where the roman empire waits a lot longer before starting their expansion, keeping the social, religious and military structure of the ancient world nearly intact (Only, this time, it's hi-tech)
"The world we live now is like this thanks to the intricate combination of trillions of trillions of trillions variables. It's quite possible, if not probable, that if a single quark, in the moment it all began, was one trillionth of a nanometer out of its place, the entire history of the universe would be completely different."