HunterOpera2017

Someone mistook the back of my truck for a parking space on the highway about a month ago. I'm mostly okay, but it did slow me down somewhat and I'm just now beginning to catch up on things. 

I started this account six years ago to go on massive crawls, looking for art and inspiration. I downloaded a lot of landscapes, a lot of character portraits, and slowly got sucked into the DiD community and several other fan based groupings. I only really started taking DeviantArt itself seriously in the past two years, actually Watching people as opposed to just lurking, and it's worked out for me.

Also during this period, I've recommended several artists I know to get their works up here in an effort to live off their art - endeavors which have been met with various degrees of success. The technologies available to artists in this era allow artists to live off their art like in no other time in history, and this is a good thing.

Sadly, I'm not an artist. I'm a writer.

I write constantly. It's sort of what I do and the primary definition that I apply to myself. I've written novels, screenplays, short stories, essays, scripts, all that sort of thing, and I've done fairly well at it.

Recently, one of my colleagues asked me to experiment with forms of writing in which I'm not comfortable. As a joke, I started writing a terrible DiD fanfic based on Metroid. I am, however, ridiculous - I set up my little joke like a legitimate project, plotting it out, writing up character descriptions and designs, working in little in-jokes and references to all sorts of things because that's what I do.

And that's what the Bergman Affair began as.

Since then, it's branched out and become an experiment for me. Because I'm no taking it nearly as seriously as I would the various other projects I work on, I can afford to do whatever with it and see what works and what doesn't - but that does not mean I'm going to get all that I want out of this. No writer is a complete hermit. Me likee feedback.

I know the content of this story might be challenging for some. That's fine; this is the internet and you're more than welcome to close out if this sort of thing bugs you. What I'm looking for be posting this is more nuts and bolts feedback - does the character development work, do the techniques I'm attempting to utilize function in the prose or am I overreaching myself? I'd appreciate any help that you can give me.

On a purely selfish, silly, and personal note, I hereby give permission to anyone to make art of any of the stuff in the Bergman Affair or any of the other nonsense I'll end up posting here. Just let me know about it.

Thanks.