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]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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