My Writing Style

Even though I've mentionned it before, I'll mention it in another way again: my writing style could be considered atypic.
In general, the characters are at the mercy of the writing style, and to some extent, the author's voice (not to be confused with the character's voice), but for me it's the opposite: The writing style is at the mercy of the characters.

Why have I chose this style ? For two reasons.

The first reason is pretty simple: to distinguish myself somewhat. While I do not believe to be the only one who thought of using such style, it's not widely used.

The second reason is because it make sense to me, especially in a book series based on Point Of View Characters, in which each chapter is written from the exclusive point of view of a character, with its thoughts, feelings, flash-backs and the like. I wanted to go even further, so I added things like exclusive figures of speech, specific writing structure, but also specific wording in relation to the character, replete with overall and contextual symbolism.

How does that translate for my books ?

In Discovery: Anvil, The character is extremely reflective, but thoughtful, also related to his occupation as an scientist, hence the abundance of thought speech. I used the Antonomasia figure of speech, which is basically using a proper noun as a common noun, or the opposite. Later on, there's a First person section (the book is in third person limited viewpoint). Specific words relating to ice are recurrent throughrout the novella, and snails are part of the overall symbolism representing Anvil. There's more, but I wanted you to get an understanding of what you're going to get from my work.

In my upcoming novella/novelette, titled Discovery: Tiki, the character is a teenager, so her speech will be much more informal. Furthermore, it will not feature any thought tags at all, them being integrated within the narrative. It will also feature exclusive figures of speech.

Another novella/novelette, which will be the last one comprisng the book Discovery, will feature a middle-aged man written entirely in first person viewpoint.

So when you'll have all four viewpoint characters, you'll be able to perceive very different approach to writing, even different ways of narrating the story throughout the entire D.Sea Scrolls Series. So if you find my style strange, know that it was done in purpose. I want you to truly experience in a vicarious way the way a character sees the world, with their words and their experience, butressed with figures of speech that reflects who they are.
I remember an editor of mine basically saying this: "You are mixing literary tropes within the thriller genre, but you need to ask yourself how much are you willing to let your potential readers out of their comfort zone ?"
Let me then ask you, my readers, a question:

Within the thriller genre, how much are you willing to read of your comfort zone?

The Year 2016

First of all, happy new year, everyone. I hope all of you enjoyed your holidays just as much as I did. I hope 2016 will be a year of health, learning, wisdom, and success in everything you'll undertake.

2015 was a decisive year for me. 2015 saw the release of my first novella. 2015 saw the birth of me as a self-published writer. 2015 increased my writing knowledge tenfold. 2015 brought me health, wisdom, and insight over previous events. For that, I'll always be thankful to what 2015 gave me. (it also marks the 30th anniversary of Back To The Future, and their second episode, released in 1989, depicted what could the world be in 2015. They got a lot of things right ...)

With 2015 behind us, what will 2016 bring to me ? The same things 2015 brought me, I hope. but 2016 will be my first year as a self-published writer. It means more work will come to the fore, it also means the beginning of my career as a novelist. 2016 will start to tell me if I can make it in this ardous world. I gave myself 3 years to make a decent living as a writer (around 36000K a year). If I fail by late 2018, I'll go back to my studies,but first, I'll try to be a traditionally published writer.

As you can see, 2016 will determine 1/3 of my future. That's how important that year is. Learning more about the craft, about myself, and a tiny bit of luck will determine if I got what it takes to make it.