5 pages, 481 Tosacy and 486 German.

I should try to write again, too, not just play with my language - keep planning to, but things like my computer playing stupid buggers with me throws me off again.

9 pages, 800/881

I'm having that odd problem again... I have Tosacy words that have no direct German or English translations. I struggle to find a word that more or less means something similar, in the hope that I'll remember what the word actually means... and then I derive another word from the already untranslatable one and it gets even worse.
Turned over the page I was working on just now to type up what was scribbled on the back, and there was one such group of words... and I hadn't even attempted to get a translation for the last one when I wrote them down. I'd only written, "shirashak = ... ummm..."

AAAAAARGH! What is wrong with this story and the timelines for it?! I've lost at least two timelines, and now I've managed to make one that made some sense, only - I forgot about Easter. Easter means holidays, and my characters will not be in school, which means I can not have certain conversations when they were supposed to happen, and I can't kill one of my main character's classmates on her way to school... AAAARGH!!!

I think I'll have to change the entire timeline and move the entire story two years into the future - 2007 has a more convenient Easter date than 2005.  Which means, of course, changing the entire backstory (going back to the middle ages), and the entire after-story (which I don't really intend to write, but it's fun to make up. I had notes going about 30 years into the future... one of the things I lost, and only vaguely remember.)

I would be beating my head against my desk in frustration, but it's so full of stuff I'd only break my phone, spill my water, or knock over a pile of books...

*giggles at the Magpie*

This is one of the most fun things that one of the panels at WFC talked about last year or the year before... They then were talking about timelines and situations.... How one author had to re-write 10 finished chapters because he had written a river in it that should have been going downstream.... but someone pointed out to them that looking at the lay-out of the land, it would be completely impossible to flow that way, and it should be moving in the other direction....
That was the reason I decided that I would always need a map... even if it were only a very basic hand-drawn by me (ergo not very good) map....

Oh... gotta find that one book... I used to own a book that did everything in the incorrect way.... whole weeks would be lost and everything was near impossible... very funny book that was...

On my writing.... pfffff.... I'm working, but it's slow going... my head is just blown up with work-stuff that doesn't want to leave when I need my mind empty....

Fantastic!!! That is what I call a perfect world.... *snarl*

Oh by the way.... there's someone on the other thread that could use some pointers in the creation of a language.... and you, our personal language specialist, will prolly have more to say than I....

Trying to become more disciplined in my writing in preparation for NaNo. Still not managing more than a couple hundred words a day. And writing those means I have no idea to prepare for November. I need names for my characters, and a map of fairyland, and a timeline ... argh.

Instead, one of the main characters from 'Masks' decided to tell me his unneccessarily complicated family history - seriously, Lionno, did I really have to know your grandfather cheated on your grandmother, and your uncle is only your half-uncle? It's not like you'll even mention it in the story!

Playing with my language again, making up songs. I woke up on Saturday morning, looked out at the cloudy sky, and came up with an idea for an Autumn song (which can also be used as a lullaby), which I translated into Tosacy as best as I could without being able to get at my dictionary. Spent the day singing to myself, "Shishe, shishe, layaku nehanay" (Hush, hush, the world is going to sleep) until I got the tune right.

So does everyone know what story they are doing for NaNoWriMo?

My story will be about a young girl who starts her first steps into the world of IT. She's probably going to create a website for her pony club or something. I should really read some of my old girly books.

I have a few different ideas. So it sounds like not everyone is doing fantasy? All my ideas are fantasy stories.

I can't usually write Fantasy - only during NaNo. I think that's because I don't take my NaNo stories seriously. For some reason, although I love to read Fantasy, I can only read it if I make fun of it.

Took me a while to remember that you have actual dragons. *needs to go to bed* But it sounds fun!

Last edited by Magpie (2010-10-12 15:23:03)

Sounds like a great plan Libra!