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Today I'm working on Nemesis, not World Domination 101
...and who knows if WD101 is worth even working on. That's what I'm thinking about as I take a break, really.
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of course, right now all I want to do is watch K-Dramas, because revising is hard. But Nemesis is THIS close!
So. No k-dramas. I won't lie and say I haven't been reading manga in between, though.
imps stealing my life away
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The weird thing about being into the pop culture of a country other than the one you're writing for is that I end up having these ideas playing in my mind based out of tropes that are totally foreign to the body of work in my native language.
Am I in trouble, I wonder?
...and who knows if WD101 is worth even working on. That's what I'm thinking about as I take a break, really.
***
of course, right now all I want to do is watch K-Dramas, because revising is hard. But Nemesis is THIS close!
So. No k-dramas. I won't lie and say I haven't been reading manga in between, though.
***
The weird thing about being into the pop culture of a country other than the one you're writing for is that I end up having these ideas playing in my mind based out of tropes that are totally foreign to the body of work in my native language.
Am I in trouble, I wonder?
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Date: 2011-11-04 12:22 am (UTC)From:DO I HAVE AN ANSWER
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Date: 2011-11-04 12:54 am (UTC)From:omg
what's with that face, when you make real smiles it kills me, boy.
OK, the fake ones are good, too....
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Date: 2011-11-04 01:00 am (UTC)From:OH MAH GAW I JUST FINISHED REVISING THIS WRITEY THING ITS CREEPY
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Date: 2011-11-04 02:07 am (UTC)From:no subject
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Date: 2011-11-04 03:34 pm (UTC)From::notices weird things, I know:
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Date: 2011-11-04 03:37 pm (UTC)From:ALSO THAT GIF IS NOT FAIR ITS A COMBO BREAKER
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Date: 2011-11-04 07:00 am (UTC)From:And I can't wait to see the new Nemesis!
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Date: 2011-11-04 02:51 pm (UTC)From:And I was kind of thinking about you, too, as I wrote this, as at least a sympathizer...
I got a nice rejection the other day to a story set in Japan where the editor was like, "Aw yeah, I went there, so I thought that was cool, but"
X)
One of my biggest problems is feeling like I'm translating everything into English and not necessarily well.
Hey...have you read my Fox at the Karaoke Bar short-short?
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Date: 2011-11-04 03:02 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2011-11-04 03:30 pm (UTC)From:I don't know if there's anything that could be done with that one, it's such a one-shot XD but I like it, in a way.
...that's the problem with my short-stories. They're all YA one-shots, and then I look at all these uberserious literary magazines and think, "Ye~ah, I'll just sit over here and play with some sticks."
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Date: 2011-11-04 05:59 pm (UTC)From:THIS. You have just summed up my entire writing career.
(at least sticks are fun?)
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Date: 2011-11-04 06:35 pm (UTC)From:I do have a problem of thematic resonance in short-form, too, so no doubt some of the stories I'm sending around would be accepted if they were actually awesome, despite their YA bent.
Hah.
I always tell myself someday I'll have fans with a desire for bonus content...
/self-delusion