Yes and no. I have a lot of difficulty relating to people in general, because I'm autistic. I do a lot of translating in my head. I can tell my own story in my own way but then generally nobody else is able to catch what I'm intending, and that frustrates me. I'm very logical and concrete, and I wish I could be less so.
This must be something like the difficulty certain people face when they're writing their fics in another language, like a girl I beta for, who speaks Slovak as her native tongue and writes stories in English. I'm sure that the phrases she writes make perfect sense before she tries to write them in English but it's not always possible to translate something accurately. There are a lot of nuances to consider, and certain cases where word choice changes the meaning subtly. Those are the problems I encounter much of the time when trying to transfer a story from my head to words which will make others understand what I'm TRYING to say. They may still like what's there, but it frustrates me to no end that the meaning I WANT to come through gets cast into shadow.
I do know that I can write well, but maybe I have no faith in my ability to accurately express what I truly intend in a way other people will understand. Then again, I feel like many folks don't appreciate all the layers and nuances that are painstakingly worked into stories by those authors who take the time to do so.
This must be something like the difficulty certain people face when they're writing their fics in another language, like a girl I beta for, who speaks Slovak as her native tongue and writes stories in English. I'm sure that the phrases she writes make perfect sense before she tries to write them in English but it's not always possible to translate something accurately. There are a lot of nuances to consider, and certain cases where word choice changes the meaning subtly. Those are the problems I encounter much of the time when trying to transfer a story from my head to words which will make others understand what I'm TRYING to say. They may still like what's there, but it frustrates me to no end that the meaning I WANT to come through gets cast into shadow.
I do know that I can write well, but maybe I have no faith in my ability to accurately express what I truly intend in a way other people will understand. Then again, I feel like many folks don't appreciate all the layers and nuances that are painstakingly worked into stories by those authors who take the time to do so.
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