* Ce samedi, je suis allée chez modocanis, pour faire du NaNo en choeur, et c'était cool ! J'ai bien avancé, et je pense qu'elle aussi.


* En plus, elle m'a prêté une revue de comics traduits qui contient entre autres la prépub -1 de X-men, qui consiste principalement en la dernière conversation entre Xavier et Magneto avant le début de X-men, et je pousse des couinements de fangirl (eh ^^ )


* Par contre, aujourd'hui, je n'ai pas fait le NaNo. Déjà, un certain nombre d'heures ce matin et en début d'après-midi à faire tout ce qui était absolument vital pour le boulot (principalement rédiger des sujets de contrôles, et leurs corrections... ce qui signifie que bientôt j'aurai plusieurs gros tas de copies ! Ha ha ! Ceci dit, je préfère encore corriger des gros tas de copies plutôt que d'avoir cours avec une certaine classe, cette année...)


* Après avoir fini, j'aurais pu m'y remettre... mais en fait, je suis un peu bloquée (mon synopsis ici ressemble à "mes persos interrogent tels personnes et obtiennent telles informations", je ne sais pas encore qui donne quelle information, et il va falloir que je décide dans quel ordre se déroulent les interviews en respectant à la fois la cohérence et les lois de l'intensité dramatique, et ça demande de la planification sur le long terme pour que ça ne retombe pas minablement), alors j'ai écrit pour mf_100_mots, à la place. Après tout, si je veux continuer mon défi de "je traite tous les thèmes la première année", je n'éviterai pas la concurrence avec le NaNo. ^^

Cowboy Bebop, G
( Signe du destin - Défi Desiderata - Jet )


* En voyant que plein de monde était fan sur ma friend list, j'avais décidé de jeter un oeil à Kuroshitsuji. J'ai commencé par l'anime, avant de découvrir que c'était selon la plupart des critiques un mauvais choix. J'ai aussi, maintenant, acheté le tome 1 en français. (Et je compte sur lesdits fans pour en discuter ici avec moi ! S'il vous plait ! ^^ )

Globalement : ( Petits spoilers seulement - les gros sont en orange sur fond orange )


* Je vais essayer de retourner au NaNo. ^^ Oh, et de manger, sans doute. ^^

So, you know? For a show that is all about pretendy fun tiems, parody and crack... I sort of have lots of issues with Glee.

DISCLAIMER: I DO, IN FACT, LIKE GLEE. I UNDERESTAND THAT MANY PEOPLE MIGHT NOT LIKE IT, AND I'M MORE THAN WILLING TO DISCUSS THE SHOW. HOWEVER, NO BASHING, OKAY? IF YOU HATE IT, THEN THIS DISCUSSION IS PROBABLY NOT FOR YOU.

( So my issues, let me show you them )

TL;DR Sometimes I choose to think way too much abot things.

Dear NaNoWriMo-ers,

I'm not even the tortoise of writing. I'm the slug. And you are more than hares, you're cheetahs — writing at seventy miles an hour. I have to fictionalize even to talk to you.

So it's October 31st. I’m back from trick or treating in a robot costume, worn to honor Isaac Asimov, who wrote or edited more than 500 books in his lifetime. After removing my tin head mask and my metallic gloves, I pig out on candy corn and think about today's accomplishments.

I dug a shallow grave in the backyard and buried my print thesaurus (starting tomorrow, the first word I think of is good enough, even if I use it seven times on every page), dictionary (who cares how ophthalmologist is spelled anyway?), usage books (I can figure out the difference between lie and lay later), encyclopedia, atlas, and my beloved books about writing. I taped blackout curtains over my windows. My techy friend spent hours tinkering with my computer. She's assured me that it will combust if I try to reestablish connections to the internet and email. The single thing I'm keeping is my cell phone in case I start to go into cardiac arrest, but the keys are smeared with battery acid, except the 9, the 1, and send. My family and friends and Meals-on-Wheels have sworn to deliver food to my door, which will be kept closed to protect the world from my intensifying body odor.

Now I tape my list of rules and advice (culled from friends, my mom, the buried writing books, and, mostly, my own hyped-up imagination) to the wall next to my desk.

Now I tape my list of rules and advice (culled from friends, my mom, the buried writing books, and, mostly, my own hyped-up imagination) to the wall next to my desk.

-Sleep at least once a week.

-Eat at least once a day, but not constantly. Don't forget the essential fatty acids (Mom).

-If my fingers freeze from carpal tunnel syndrome, I have ten perfectly good toes, a nose, and quite a few teeth.

-When I'm not happy with how things are going, turn off the screen and keep typing. Don't turn it back on until the crisis is over.

-Don't check my word count more often than every fifteen minutes.

-Dream sequences can eat up a lot of pages, and they shouldn't be logical.

-Short words count just as much as long ones.

-The perfect is the enemy of the fast. The good is the enemy of the fast. The halfway decent is the enemy of the fast.

-When I run out of plot ideas, write about setting and what each character is wearing, in exquisite wordy detail. When I run out of setting and apparel, write about the voice quality of each speaker, speech mannerisms, facial ticks, body language.

-Keep my music loud enough to drown out my thoughts. Thinking is the enemy of speed.

-Remember the infinite-monkey theory: Endless keystrokes will eventually produce Shakespeare or at least words and maybe a story.

-Never edit.

-Never ever go back.

It's time for bed. I must get a good night's sleep, my last for a month. So of course I toss and turn until 3:00 am, when I realize the month has begun. I get up, stagger to the computer, and type, "It was a dark and stormy night." I’m on my way!

Now, seriously, not fictionalized, with all the earnestness I can command, here is the only important piece of advice, which is crucial for any speed of writing, any kind of writing: Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used to heaping on yourself. Such self-bashing is never useful. If you indulge in it, your writing doesn’t stand a chance. So when your mind turns on you, turn it back, stamp it down, shut it up, and keep writing.

Good luck!

Gail Carson Levine

SPOILERS FOR THE EP, OBVIOUSLY.

( NO-ONE EXPECTS THE ENGLISH INQUISITION )

Apparemment, il n'y a pas de prompt mf_100_mots cette semaine. Une chose en moins pour me détourner du NaNo !

Mais voilà mes dernières, que je n'avais pas postées ici :

De cape et de crocs, PG-13, vagues spoilers tome 5
( Les mécènes maudits - Défi Impromptu - Le prince Jean, OC )

Code Geass, PG, vagues spoilers saison 1
( Les raisons cachées - Défi Indigne - Suzaku/Euphemia )


Et une petite question NaNo :

Entre un conte de fées où un héros Action Boy, pas très fin mais courageux, est lourdement aidé par une Dark Magical Girlfriend classe à réaliser sa quête (ne pas perdre son âme, principalement), et la version inversée où une Action Girl pas très fine mais courageuse est aidée par un Dark Magical Boyfriend, laquelle préfèreriez-vous lire ? Et aussi : laquelle vous semble la plus satisfaisante (ou au contraire, la plus énervante) d'un point de vue féministe ?

According to NaNo stats, today I should be around 6'667 words to be able to keep on the goal.

So far, I have 8'034 words, which puts me 1000 words or so above the daily goal. And I'll see about adding another 2000 words at least when I come back from my workshop. So far, I'm doing okay with NaNo! Yay! I was a bit worried, I must admit.

In other things: winter came early this year. It's FREEZING* already. Sob, my fingers hurt. It's going to be a bitch walking to my workshop and then coming back home.



EDIT: So I won't spam your flists.

1. Post a list of up to 20 25 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/bands that you've had an obsessive fannish love or interest in at some time in your life.
2. Have your f-list guess your favourite character/member from each item.
3. When someone guesses correctly, strike through the item and put the name of your favourite character next to it.

1. Loveless. Ritsuka, guessed by padf00t
2. Kyou Kara Maou Yuuri, guessed by padf00t
3. The Dresden Files.
4. Tales of Symphonia. Regal, guessed by padf00t
5. Get Backers.
6. Princess Tutu. Fakir, guessed by padf00t
7. Pushing Daisies.
8. Glee.
9. D.Gray-man. Lavi, guessed by padf00t
10. Persona Trinity Soul. Shin, guessed by padf00t
11. Ouran High School Host Club.
12. Nabari no Ou. Aizawa, guessed by padf00t
13. Pandora Hearts. Vincent, guessed by padf00t
14. The Sandman.
15. xxxHOLiC.
16. Merlin (BBC). Merlin, guessed by azartti
17. Angel Sanctuary. Raziel, guessed by padf00t
18. Torchwood.
19. Code Geass.
20. Katekyo Hitman Reborn.

J'ai passé les deux premiers jours de novembre à moitié dans le train, donc je n'ai pas beaucoup écrit ; mais j'ai rattrapé aujourd'hui ! Je suis pile à l'heure, là, sans avance, ni retard.

(Et il serait temps que le scénar commence)

Juste une petite question pour mes lecteurs. Mon histoire est à la troisième personne, mais en point de vue d'un des personnages, qui a onze-douze ans. Quand je parle, par exemple, de son père, serait-il plus naturel d'écrire "le père de Clément", "le papa de Clément" ou "papa" ?

4675 / 50000 words. 9% done!

In the one hand, I sort of hoped to have more. On the other hand, I wrote ALL OF THIS just on the 2nd because I didn't have time during the 1st. And since my sisters are not going to be at home tomorrow, I'm gonna be able to write much more tomorrow morning.

SO. Yay! With any luck I'll double that by tomorrow.

Apparently, I'm capable of writing 2000+ words in one hour. Not bad, eh?

CALLING ALL BILINGUALS! I know there's a few of you on my flist, I think... lol

I have an essay due this Wednesday for my Language, Society and Culture class, and one of the prompts I can write about requires asking a bilingual person a few questions. Of course, there are other prompts I could use, but I'd really like to do this one preferably, so if you could do this for me I would GREATLY appreciate it!

Though, if you do, I'll need your real name - or at least a pseudonym that sounds real, just so I can refer to what you say in the essay itself. If you're not comfortable with that, then don't volunteer.

Here are the questions:

1. What circumstances led you to becoming bilingual?

2. At what ages or in what contexts were the different languages acquired?

3. Which of the languages do you still use today?

4. In what contexts do you use each language? (For example - use 1 at home, use 1 at school)

5. Have there been changes in your ability or use of either of the languages over time? What caused those changes?

6. How do you feel about your bilingualism - are you glad to be bilingual, is it a burden to you, or is it simply a fact of life?

7. My name is:

Comments are screened for privacy. Thank you SO MUCH if you decide to do this for me, I'll really owe you!

I was going to make a whole post of my squealing about Merlin 2x06.

Instead, have a gif.

( Sort of spoiler for this ep )

I love this corny, cheesy show so damn much XD

Happy almost Halloween, everyone!

I've been, surprisingly, okay! I'm starting to wonder if I somehow broke a mirror when I was 17, because this is the very first October when there's absolutely no tragedy or misery in my October at all. I mean, yeah, sure, family troubles as always, but last year my birthday was pretty much forgotten, the year before that I was having so much troubles with my insomnia that I was sleeping about three hours a day and the year before that I was in the middle of my depression after mom.

The monday after my birthday, I started a cinematographic script class, and I'm still going. It's three days a week, two hours each session and so far it's really fun. Since we're focussing on fiction rather than documentaries and the like, its' also helping me to give a brush up on writing short stories. To make things even better, one of the people giving the class was my favorite teacher of the SOGEM.

SO! I'm out of the house for at least six hours a week, and more, since with my new cellphone I've been walking out for a bit when it's not too cold.

All in all, if we ignore the lack of job and possible lack of inspiration, it's been going great!

Oh, yeah. I'm also going to do NaNo. because I'm a masochist.

Dans la catégorie "trucs à faire avant le NaNo parce qu'après il sera trop tard et pendant je me gausse" : j'ai fait ma liste de Noël sur lutins_de_noel ! Venez aussi faire la vôtre, pour qu'on échange des cadeaux ! :-)

P.S. : On dirait que fictionpress est revenu, j'ai paniqué pour rien.

I'm having some troubles with my SPK prompts. I think that part of it is that other than a few, none of them really made me say WANNA. I may give up three or four since, seriously. SPK starts this sunday, I only took nine prompts and I only have two written.

And I thought it might be my inspiration, but considering that I have been writing comment-fic, I really don't think that's it.

Merlin, Merlin/Arthur, Camelot's holding a masquerade - and Arthur's persuaded Merlin to attend...in a costume that Arthur chose
Torchwood, Jack/Ianto, only he sees the man behind the mask
Firefly, Inara, mask
xxxHolic, Clow/Yuuko, traditional Chinese dress

Axis Power Hetalia/Twilight, the day America sparkled

Yes. You read that right. I swear. People need to stop telling me what I can or can't write, I'm too much of a troll otherwise.

... sorry?

J'ai passé la fin du mois à me dire "il ne faut pas commencer trop de choses, et si tu n'avais pas fini pour le NaNo, hein ?" ^^


( Aux origines du monde - France )

( Les esprits du monde vert - Anne Guilhomon-Lamaze )

( Aux origines du monde - Contes et légendes de Russie )

( Du domaine + Euclidiennes - Guillevic )

( Poésie 1 - Les poètes et le Diable )

( A Book of Dreams - Peter Reich )

( Orgueil et Préjugés - Jane Austen )

Once upon a time, I had a handbag.

Not my favorite handbag, and not an ugly handbag, merely a handbag I didn't use much. So I started using it when I went to the park to read, to take my water, a notebook and a book.

One day, I took out my things and I left the handbag on a box by the couch.

That was the day Isis found The HanBag. And that was the last time I had that particular handbag, and it became one of Isis' multiple beds.

Here's the video.

Je suis allée vite cette fois, en particulier parce que j'ai reçu quelques reviews négatives sur le chapitre précédent, et voilà, ce chapitre-là permettra aux gens de décider si c'est juste parce qu'ils avaient mal compris ce que je voulais dire ou si leur suspension of disbelief ne va pas si loin.

Dans lequel Vincent comprend qu'une description du fonctionnement général d'un appareil et/ou contrat ne remplace pas la lecture de toutes les clauses en petits caractères. On risque de se retrouver avec un rival en amour imprévu. Ou pas. Ou pire.

http://www.fictionpress.com/s/1501315/28/


(Sinon, je ferais mieux de bosser à mon NaNo. Je n'ai toujours pas de titre. Ha ha.)