Sofie K Werkers ([info]nanowrimelle) wrote,
@ 2003-11-03 13:02:00
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Current mood:determined

The bad news is, this is all I wrote last night, due to a terminal case of vegetate-itis, and also a minor fever.

The good news is, this still only puts me about 1,000 words behind schedule, and I fully plan to catch up on that before Friday. That's only a little more than five extra words a day. I can wing that. And then, I'll have a whole week off with nothing to do but write. Yay!


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[info]wimmeke
2003-11-03 01:44 pm UTC (link)
Well, I actually meant the style of your dialogue, not quite the content. What I wrote there was to describe the whole of your story. I'm liking it until now. I somehow regret how I let you talk me into writing in English, because my dictionary sure came in handy today, but hey, I learned stuff today, I think, if I haven't forgotten half of it by now. I guess it's your notes referrance that did it. I must go and sleep a bit now. Oh, and I'm keeping notes too. There is like, uhm, 8 words on my sheet already. LOL
But what I'm writing now supposedly happened 500 years before the start of my actual story, so they're all useless figurants for now. It's hard to keep inventing 16th century English names all the time, but like today, the baker was as good a name as Steve the blacksmith and a few knights and huntsmen. I'll live, I guess.

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[info]nanowrimelle
2003-11-04 03:56 am UTC (link)
Hey now, why am I being blamed for you writing in English?

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[info]wimmeke
2003-11-04 09:24 am UTC (link)
You're not being blamed Sofie ;-) It's a combination of things where your part was only minimal, like "If she can do it than so can I." sort of speaking. I read most of my books in English, I was sure I could write them as well. Until you start, and suddenly want to say something for which you don't know the word. That's my fault too. I read Harry Potter, The Hobbit, Fellowship of the Ring and a bunch of Stephen King novels. Can I help it that I don't remember any of them explaining that a medieval "Schout", was to be translated as "Sheriff", that the round thing in front of a sasddle to hold on to was a "pommel" and that a horse was to be pulled forward by tugging it's "reins" (teugels). If I would have read some medieval stories too in English, I might have known those by now.
I can sit here and complain all day, but I'm up to 8000 words in three days, well ahead of schedule, still having fun and if I'll pull myself trough this, I bet my English will have become a whole lot better than before I started. So I guess I should actually be thanking you as well for it.
Sorry if I offended you. There are a lot more potential readers when you write a book in English, so you're certainly not the only reason why I'm trying this now. It's nanowrimo, if I'm really hating it that much I can still write in dutch again next year.
I'm glad to see you managed to do some serious writing yourself today. I haven't read it yet but since I remember what you said yesterday... I'll be needing an inn keeper myself later on. He'll be a current date character though, I somehow doubt they'll go babbling about the same things.

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