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Gerhi Janse van Vuuren
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- Stellenbosch, Western Cape
- South Africa
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Does anybody know what is happening to Nanowrimo? I wanted to sign up for 2009 and their site seems to be down.
Gerhi
I cannot pin myself down to a genre. It goes something like this: Mainstream, supernatural, young adult, urban fantasy, thriller, literary, magic realist, ghost story.
A famous sculptor is widowed when his wife commits suicide. He escape her haunti…
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- At 3:38pm on August 5, 2009,
Jen Parker said…
- Hi Gerhi!
Sounds like a good match. I haven't looked too closely at the site, do we exchange through email or through this site somewhere?
Jen
Profile Information
- Your writer's blog or website:
- http://www.gerhi.com
- What is your genre?
- Mainstream magic realism with fantasy and or supernatural elements or urban fantasy leaning towards alternate reality but mostly I make it up as I go along.
- What do you write?
- novels
- Are you a pantser, a plotter, or a hybrid?
- hybrid
- What is your current project?
- Bendingras' Muse - A famous sculptor takes a post as an art teacher at a private girls' school to escape the ghost of his wife, who killed herself, and end up taking his senior class for a field trip to the underworld
- What stage is your current project in?
- Just starting out, under 10 000 words done, less than 10 scenes plotted, no idea how it is going to end.
- I'm looking for a CP who
- wants to swap full drafts just for critique, is willing to swap chapters as we go
- How long have you been writing?
- Trying it full time since April 2008, on and of for more than 25 years
- Published or Aspiring?
- aspiring
- What do you feel is your greatest strength as a writer?
- Coming up with creative ideas and plot twists. Quite strong in dialogue.
- What do you feel is your greatest weakness as a writer?
- Sticking to one project.
- Do you have any specialized knowledge in some field?
- I am South African if that counts. I am a trained fine artist, have a degree in drama, worked as a teacher and in museum services. I know a lot about South African Universities having studied at four of them, and having visited or attended conferences at just as many.
- Age
- 42
- Where are you from?
- South Africa
- Looking for a CP or Taken?
- looking
- Where did you hear about Crit Partner Match? (we want to say thank you to them!)
- Found Kait Nolan's site from a comment on Holly Lisle's blog
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