PicoWriMo

Success!

I've finished translating - and transcribing - Chapter1 of "The Billion Year Voyage"! Amazing, how the general lack of world-building and technobabble can speed up the job! Alas, it won't be like this for the whole duration of the story. But I'm quite happy for the time being. *g*

Excerpt:

Searching for Xon, he soon spotted the young Vulcan in the second row of the audience. Surprisingly enough, McCoy was sitting next to him. What’s more, they seemed to argue with each other in a low whisper; the CMO of the Enterprise behaved like a concerned father who didn’t want his favourite son to make a fool of himself. Kirk decided to ask Leonard about the argument later and focused on Lieutenant Palamas who was just about to begin her presentation, looking every bit as radiant as she had when she first came aboard.

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Very good progress, congratulations on completing the work on Chapter 1!

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Thank you. My mind isn't really suited for creative work right now (not the kind where I'd need to, you know, think), but translating 10+ chapters from the original Hungarian/German into English makes me feel that I've acccomplished something anyway. Plus, I've wanted to do this for a long time.

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Billion year voyage!? Wow.

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Hypothetically speaking. They finally manage to figure out what has happened to a really, really ancient race whose ruinous outposts had been the puzzle of the know galaxy for decades.

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Ah. Neat.

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AW, McCoy has found another Spock!

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And he is even entitled to be a bit patronizing, as Xon is very young and fresh out of Starfleet Academy. *g*

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elmey.livejournal.com

McCoy found another Vulcan to argue with :)

You're making real progress!

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He sees it as taking the greenhorn under his wings... whether the greenhorn wants his help or not! *g*

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Got up my newest story and am about 200 words into the next one. Busy, busy, busy! :D

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I think your photo will be found in the lexicon next to the article "industrious". *g*

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Aw, you are very kind - thank you!

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Well, it's the honest truth!

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You are still kind to say so. :D

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Congratulations! Good luck with the next story!

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Thanks!

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Go you!

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Thank you!

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elmey.livejournal.com

You're so good at this; it takes real discipline!

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Thanks! I like to write every day, but it doesn't always happen.

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I worked a little on my story yesterday, and today I was really in the mood to work on the changes, so I spent a couple of hours on it, including some lovely reading about mountains near Geneva which took up over a half an hour and will result in the name of a mountain in the story:)

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Great!

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That's what we call "combine the nice with the useful". :)

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Yes! I could have gotten away with a vague 'the nearby mountainside', but I really do enjoy looking at locations and the geographical features:)

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Excellent! That sounds like a day very well spent!

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Thanks:) I was glad to take care of that little geographical issue:)

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Nothing like a positive result from pleasure reading :) You sound like you're fairly satisfied with your progress though.

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I was making some decent progress, then once again, just couldn't focus on it. I know what the problem is. The deadline isn't close enough yet:)

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As I said on my own journal, today was a very shortened, very final day at work in a very empty workplace, so I cam home feeling unsettled and odd and "omigod that's it" ... not much serious writing but I did do that post describing it (if any of you would like to read my humble posts, feel free to friend!) and a few scribbly ideas and descriptions of former and, well, now ex-workmates...

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{{{hugs}}}

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Thanks.

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Welcome to the club of leisurely old ladies! You'll see, it's a great way of existence, even if one sometimes misses the colleagues (not all of them, but most of them) and the excitement.

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I can live without excitement for a while....

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It's important that you do stuff like that to give yourself the closure you need. I will need to go off and read it.

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