yup, already going batty
I may or may not have:
* written terrible drafts of certain scenes, including something which is dangerously close to obsessing over how perfectly Philipp Lahm plays football (even if it's true, and even if his freaking youth coaches were quoted as saying "If Philipp doesn't make it in the Bundesliga, no one will"). Oh, and attempted (and failed) to describe the differences between men's and women's football without being sexist or pandering, as seen from the eyes of a 17 year old amateur footballer. I may or may not have succeeded. >.>
* researched the U19 team as extensively as Google Translate would let me
* read up on the German education system just to understand what the hell they'd be dealing with off the pitch - a difficult task given the huge differences between the system I'm familiar with (in the US) and the German one. I want to shake my fist at the tripartite secondary school system. Public or private? Gymansium, Realschule, or that other option I can't even spell? Hell, is it possible they've graduated already?
* asked a prominent Internet community on makeup and other beauty topics about which drugstores carry which brands in Munich, then gone to the website of one of those drugstores to check there was a location suitable for my needs
* done all of this while staying up to hours that can only be described as "stupid late".
Things I still haven't done though?
* justified how they're always alone together for cuddle-times (and maybe not-so-cuddle-times). Sadly I can't use the hotel room excuse I was planning as most U19 games are close enough they probably all just drive to away games, and I can't use the boarding school excuse because they're both commuters (there's only 13 rooms at Säbener Strasse, and they go to kids from overseas, not Munich natives)
* figured out how to end the fic itself
* any of, you know, my real life obligations
so please, share your stories of early writing madness :P
* written terrible drafts of certain scenes, including something which is dangerously close to obsessing over how perfectly Philipp Lahm plays football (even if it's true, and even if his freaking youth coaches were quoted as saying "If Philipp doesn't make it in the Bundesliga, no one will"). Oh, and attempted (and failed) to describe the differences between men's and women's football without being sexist or pandering, as seen from the eyes of a 17 year old amateur footballer. I may or may not have succeeded. >.>
* researched the U19 team as extensively as Google Translate would let me
* read up on the German education system just to understand what the hell they'd be dealing with off the pitch - a difficult task given the huge differences between the system I'm familiar with (in the US) and the German one. I want to shake my fist at the tripartite secondary school system. Public or private? Gymansium, Realschule, or that other option I can't even spell? Hell, is it possible they've graduated already?
* asked a prominent Internet community on makeup and other beauty topics about which drugstores carry which brands in Munich, then gone to the website of one of those drugstores to check there was a location suitable for my needs
* done all of this while staying up to hours that can only be described as "stupid late".
Things I still haven't done though?
* justified how they're always alone together for cuddle-times (and maybe not-so-cuddle-times). Sadly I can't use the hotel room excuse I was planning as most U19 games are close enough they probably all just drive to away games, and I can't use the boarding school excuse because they're both commuters (there's only 13 rooms at Säbener Strasse, and they go to kids from overseas, not Munich natives)
* figured out how to end the fic itself
* any of, you know, my real life obligations
so please, share your stories of early writing madness :P