Hello, it's me...

[mariedasflores]

Hi! I may look a tad like Adele I don't sing quite as well. Good thing then I chose to be a writer!
I am a French native and I've been writing forever in my mother-tongue, I even published a novel last year, a bitter romance called "L". I've always loved the English language and lived a few years in UK but I only recently tried to write in English. I finished a novel (a romance again, but on a bubbly, fun side this time) but as a non-native speaker, I don't feel very confident with the text and I have no idea what it's really worth and how to polish it so I came here, hoping to find support and positive advises/comments to improve.
Very sight to join this community and hoping to read from a lot of new people!

Cheers

Marie

 

[Richard Turner]

Welcome. I look forward to reading some of your material. I speak French, German and Welsh - none of them well, but enough to become fascinated by how culture and geography shape language and how language shapes culture.

 

[Island Writer]

Hi Marie - not sure what you mean by "Very sight to join this community" - I suspect you mean "psyched"! Either way...
welcome!

 

[Marc Joan]

Welcome! I used to work in Geneva, and still have a bit of French, but nothing like as good as your English clearly is. Well done for trying to write in a second language - there are some excellent precedents, eg Conrad.

 

[Bluma Bezbroda]

Finally, I'm not the only non-native-English writer around anymore! Warm welcome!

 

[AgentPete]

Welcome Marie!

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Hello Congratulations on finishing un roman written in another langue. That's already quite an achievement.

 

[Lex Black]

Welcome to the Colony!

 

[Peggy Lou]

Welcome Marie. Post your chapters in the Houses. You'll get some good feedback.

 

[Robinne Weiss]

Welcome to the colony! We're a friendly bunch, speaking many languages. We also enjoy cake. Oh, and, uh, writing...

 

[Paul Whybrow]

Welcome to the Colony!

 

[Carol Rose]

Welcome!

 

[Luciferette]

Hi, fellow nouveau Litopiat writing a novel is hard enough, but in a second language? Formidable! I'm impressed.

 

[Richard Turner]

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Hi, fellow nouveau Litopiat writing a novel is hard enough, but in a second language? Formidable! I'm impressed.

Litopiat - nice word. The Litopiat - our version of the aristocracy when literature rules the world!

 

[Sea-shore]

Hello and welcome Marie.

 

[Patricia D]

Hello Marie, Welcome

 

[Boopadoo]

Hello and welcome!

 

[mariedasflores]

Thanks everyone!!