November 2019 - Day 2

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Early post is early because I'll be busy in the afternoon and intend to watch "Childhood's End" in the evening. Erm. Yes.

Here is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it)!
May the magic be with us all!

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[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

And, in the light of the above mentioned facts, I'm using my advantage again to drop off my daily report.

I decided that I needed the feeling of accomplishment and attacked the Epilogue of the story, since it is less than 3 pages long and I didn't have to look out for continuity errors so sharply. So I finished the translation of those almost-3 pages and sent off the Epilogue to the most generous lindahoyland for beta reading. She was offering and I shamelessly took advantage of her offer. The snippet posted below is the raw version, probably full of grammatical oddities, for which I apologize. Translating generates a lot more mistakes, as I tend to unconsciously import German or Hungarian grammatical structures into English.

Excerpt:

In her comfortable though puritan quarters in Starbase 13’s habitat area Dr. Cheung studied the data the Enterprise had brought from McBurney IV to the middle of the simulated night. This wasn’t the first night spent with this particular job. Commodore Stone had got her the permission from Admiral Nhauris, the head of Starfleet Sciences, to access all information concerning her special scientific field, and she’d been spent all her time with this study, day and night. A subspace channel between her and the team of Vulcan scientists who studied the same data on Memory Alpha – especially young T’Pan, her immediate co-worker – stood always open.

Well, almost always. Even Vulcans and Orions needed sleep, occasionally.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

My editor's fingers are twitching, but since you have a beta I won't confuse things. I can see what you mean though about the lingering effects of sentence structure in other languages, and you're right, good translations are not easy to make. Tough assignment you took on!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I still don't know what kind of temporary insanity made me write the stuff in two languages: dialogues in German, the rest in Hungarian. Had it been the one or the other, I could have put it up in any archive. It isn't so that many people would read the English version, either. People no longer appreciate the classics. A shame, really. ;))

So, you're willing to do some beta work? You should never have told me that. Do you know how much other stuff I have in sore need of editing?

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Not too many words today, at least not yet. Mostly I am getting my prompts around for the Christmas challenge and packing away Halloween.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I'm sooo looking forward for your Christmas stories. The Halloween ones were great, so I'm in happy expectation.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

You are most kind, thank you!

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Looks like you're gearing up for another very productive month!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Here's hoping!

[julesjones]

From my DW post:

I may not do any writing as such at all; instead I'm going to start wrangling the written-on-dead-tree into some sort of order on my computer now that I have a new computer that doesn't sulk if I dare to have more than one piece of software running at a time. If new words happen in the course of this, well and good, but I'm not going to run my usual "at least 100 words a day" this year. At this point I wouldn't even be sure if that 100 words has already been put onto paper and I've forgotten doing so. (I currently have three part-written novels competing for space in my brain. Keeping track of what's made it out of my brain has become impossible.)

What I actually did:

Put my self-pub reprint of Dolphin Dreams on Amazon and Draft2Digital. That completes the first batch of self-pubbing my old Loose Id titles. Today will probably involve rounding up some of the notebooks and loose sheets with first draft scribbled in them. They're scattered all over the house.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Hey, being published is a great thing! And I know what you mean about old notes. I'm contemplating the need of cleaning out my desk and book cabinet and rearrange all the hand-written notes, so that I'd know what's in which corner - and then I'd chicken out. It is just too gargantual an effort.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Quite an accomplishment! How many books do you have on-line now?

Trying to keep track of bits and pieces of earlier writing is a real task.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Rock on! That's huge and a lot better than anything I accomplished.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Alas, again no words came, but they were contemplated. Hoping to do better in the coming week!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

[elmey.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling. I contemplate a lot too :D

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Thinking is always a good thing! It's the best place to start.

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

No writing today. We got up late and had a day of swim-meets and shopping and poker playing, in which I lost twenty dollars.

Pico Goal: 1,800 minutes. (an hour per day)

So far: 60 / 1800 minutes = 3% done.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

I lost money on the horses today, so don't feel bad. Only $5 though--and it was only because Peter went to OTB to bet on the Breeder's Cup so I figured I'd take a shot on one race.

Haven't managed a full hour of writing yet. The weekends are difficult.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

You did a lot - you got DtC up!

[ylla.livejournal.com]

A long day - I was on a train at 6:20am, after being up until midnight the night before, and didn't get to bed until after midnight again...

A good knitting day, though - I made good progress on the old project on the way north, so that I now have two mittens, although no thumbs yet! This was the experimental start, a week ago - the hands are plain black, and I went for the version with the purple in between the two brighter colours.



The new project is a kind of small shawl/wrap thing, where every line is longer than the one before as it gets wider - I thought I was going to have to do Complicated Sums to work out how far I'd got, but turns out that the pattern helpfully tells you when you're at 5%, 10% and so on.

So it grew through the rest of the journey - I was going on up to Perth for a big dancing event - and in the garden at Scone at lunchtime, and even a bit while I was sitting out from the social dancing in the evening! I was at 10% by the end of the day, which was far better progress than I'd hoped - I want to get on with this plain bit as quickly as possible, though, as the second half of the pattern is lacy edges, which will take more time and concentration...

Words took a definite back seat - I eventually scribbled the statutory 100 just before midnight again, at the end of the dance!
More odds and ends on a different belated post, but my hope is that if I can just get started I will eventually get finished.

Collingwood’s dispatch is arguably the start of the continuing Nelson legend - beginning not with an account of the battle, but with the words 'the ever to be lamented death of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson'.