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jade_sabreif I get through tomorrow I will be HALFWAY THERE maybe I will make a better post then.
I want to talk about something fandom-y! I am like three chapters away from finishing The Farthest Shore and the chapter I ended on today ended with Series Main Character mentioning wanting to see Book Two Main Character and I squealed like a little girl in the (empty) teacher's lounge because I love them that much. SO MUCH. (People on the plane with me while I was reading Book Two: I am still really sorry about that.)
Glee doesn't come back until next week! To keep watching to see if Puckleberry makes a comeback y/n.
My DA big bang fic is stalled at 1600 words, about 600 of which are going to have to change because as Jak pointed out clearly this moment comes after Darin offers Gorim to Masha and he gets really pissed off, so I have to come up with another way for her to convince him to let her meet Masha in the first place without her ordering him to do it. Maybe if it is early enough in their relationship she just bullies him into it? As they get to know each other better he becomes more resolute (and, I think, she understands his convictions better).
My main problem really seems to be that I have two story lines and I need to plot them out separate and then figure out where they link up, because we have flashbacks and then we have the present, and I can't decide if the present will be in present tense or not. Also the flashback really has two storylines of its own, but I think the whole fic is from Gorim's POV (what, me writing about the stalwart bodyguard type? Never...), which will present challenges of its own. Basically we have the ascension of a queen against the backdrop of the developments of a badass friendship and a deeply suppressed romance; what pieces of the backdrop do we need, and when?
WELL that was helpful.
My choir is doing more Handel! I love Handel.
I watched Ever After last week. Danielle and the prince kiss very sweetly. Also, that movie reminds me of my 2008 NaNo, and not just because of the Cinderella stuff--France (specifically, I think, the Loire region) permeates both of them, and watching the movie/rereading the manuscript (oh God it needs so much help) (well not really plot-wise, but individual sentences need so much attention) (never mind that I still haven't written part two because--and okay, maybe here the plot does need help--the whole thing is about Nell's development from where she starts to where it ends? [This sounds like a duh statement.] But I'm not sure how to carry that thread from the first part [a fairy-tale retelling, less obviously about Nell] to the second part [which is about marriage and therefore not really your normal YA fare at all] [maybe I should just change the whole novel from being YA] [but she's so young in the beginning!] [well, so was David Copperfield] [you begin to see my problems, I think] [OH I should reread Spindle's End and see how Robin McKinley does it] [I will reread Earthsea when I want to write Ariadne] [MC, what's that fellowship with the whole year-in-Rome thing?] [I forget what I was originally talking about])...oh, I see. Watching the movie/reading the manuscript makes me miss France like WHOA.
but then I am missing lots of things.
moving on.
Oh look! I have made it to shower time, and even worked a few things out along the way. Success!
♥
I want to talk about something fandom-y! I am like three chapters away from finishing The Farthest Shore and the chapter I ended on today ended with Series Main Character mentioning wanting to see Book Two Main Character and I squealed like a little girl in the (empty) teacher's lounge because I love them that much. SO MUCH. (People on the plane with me while I was reading Book Two: I am still really sorry about that.)
Glee doesn't come back until next week! To keep watching to see if Puckleberry makes a comeback y/n.
My DA big bang fic is stalled at 1600 words, about 600 of which are going to have to change because as Jak pointed out clearly this moment comes after Darin offers Gorim to Masha and he gets really pissed off, so I have to come up with another way for her to convince him to let her meet Masha in the first place without her ordering him to do it. Maybe if it is early enough in their relationship she just bullies him into it? As they get to know each other better he becomes more resolute (and, I think, she understands his convictions better).
My main problem really seems to be that I have two story lines and I need to plot them out separate and then figure out where they link up, because we have flashbacks and then we have the present, and I can't decide if the present will be in present tense or not. Also the flashback really has two storylines of its own, but I think the whole fic is from Gorim's POV (what, me writing about the stalwart bodyguard type? Never...), which will present challenges of its own. Basically we have the ascension of a queen against the backdrop of the developments of a badass friendship and a deeply suppressed romance; what pieces of the backdrop do we need, and when?
WELL that was helpful.
My choir is doing more Handel! I love Handel.
I watched Ever After last week. Danielle and the prince kiss very sweetly. Also, that movie reminds me of my 2008 NaNo, and not just because of the Cinderella stuff--France (specifically, I think, the Loire region) permeates both of them, and watching the movie/rereading the manuscript (oh God it needs so much help) (well not really plot-wise, but individual sentences need so much attention) (never mind that I still haven't written part two because--and okay, maybe here the plot does need help--the whole thing is about Nell's development from where she starts to where it ends? [This sounds like a duh statement.] But I'm not sure how to carry that thread from the first part [a fairy-tale retelling, less obviously about Nell] to the second part [which is about marriage and therefore not really your normal YA fare at all] [maybe I should just change the whole novel from being YA] [but she's so young in the beginning!] [well, so was David Copperfield] [you begin to see my problems, I think] [OH I should reread Spindle's End and see how Robin McKinley does it] [I will reread Earthsea when I want to write Ariadne] [MC, what's that fellowship with the whole year-in-Rome thing?] [I forget what I was originally talking about])...oh, I see. Watching the movie/reading the manuscript makes me miss France like WHOA.
but then I am missing lots of things.
moving on.
Oh look! I have made it to shower time, and even worked a few things out along the way. Success!
♥
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Date: 2011-01-27 06:24 am (UTC)The trouble is for Literature you don't apply, you get nominated by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. So... get on their good list? Somehow? I dunno. All I know is I'm eying those pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships! Though honestly, how much of a dissertation would I get done if I were in Rome?
Yay Handel! My choir is singing a Selig sind die Toten which is nowhere near as nice as Brahms and it makes me miss Chorale. And Tsung Yeh!
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Date: 2011-01-27 08:33 am (UTC):D :D :D :D JUST WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT ONE! ;)
Are you liking The Farthest Shore? It's pretty intense, right? At least, I think I remember it that way. It's part adventure story with awesome Ged being awesome and melancholy and all that, and part HOMG THIS IS REALLY DARK.
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Date: 2011-01-28 05:49 am (UTC)I am liking it! It is a definite shift away from Atuan and that makes me a little sad because Atuan is so excellent, but it is equally breathtaking in its own way. And. Yes. It is Dark.
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Date: 2011-01-28 12:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-28 03:32 am (UTC)OMG YOU HAVE TO READ THEM IN ORDER YOU HAVE TO READ THEM IN ORDER
seriously Wizard of Earthsea sets up everything and and--okay it's basically like not reading The Thief first, which okay is what I did and I still loved QoA (it is, in fact, almost exactly like not reading The Thief first), but like OMG, WIZARD SETS UP EVERYTHING
but you definitely don't want to start with Farthest Shore JUST SAYING.
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Date: 2011-01-28 04:16 am (UTC)(And I didn't read The Thief first, either. I read KoA first - picked it up off a library shelf and said, hey, this cover looks different. And the blurb was intriguing, so I took it out. And loved it. And then read The Thief and wasn't spoiled because MWT never mentions the significance of Thief-itude. So yeah. Long ramble. But it would have been better to read them in order, which is what I will do here. Please let me not be bored.)
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Date: 2011-01-28 05:55 am (UTC)See when I finally read The Thief I spent the whole book thinking the twist would be that Gen had amnesia. WHOOPS GUESS NOT. I think it was my third readthrough when I realized the fact that he's actually the Thief of Eddis is the twist? :-b (I HOPE YOU ARE NOT BORED. It takes some warming up. But it is worth it.)
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Date: 2011-01-28 05:57 am (UTC)/just wrote a post on how I like understatement so I DON'T WANT TO BE A HYPOCRITE
Also I must sign off (why when you just got on, these things sometimes) but it is one in the morning what am I thinking
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Date: 2011-01-28 05:59 am (UTC)MAN WEST COAST/EAST COAST SORRY ABOUT THAT. Sleep well! :-)
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Date: 2011-01-28 05:59 am (UTC)Have you read Incarceron? Bookshelves of Doom started the review by saying "Incarceron is hell" and I kept waiting the whole book for the plot twist where Incarceron (scary jail place) turns out to be hell.
Only it isn't. It's just - very bad. Heh.