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Well, I've survived the first week back on four hours of sleep a night - go me! BD (My own fault for writing down the wrong report deadline, completely forgetting a small test and being too weak to refuse invitations to eat sukiyaki yumyumyum.) Next week will be slightly quieter and more sleepiful.
I also have to give a farewell presentation like all the other departing exchange students next Friday, mind you. I really, really, really hate public speaking, let alone in a language where I could accidentally tell my audience to go marry a tuna at any given moment.
Still, as Japanese people would say, 'shiyou ga nai' - can't be helped. Though I might add that if I were to mispronounce that very phrase, as I am wont to do, it would mean there is no dealer.
I think you understand my trepidation.
I've been spending a LOT of time tucked up in my head or scribbling notes on bits of paper lately too (when I haven't been frantically typing away on rudely intruding reports :P). When I finally decided last year to scrap Seeking in its old incarnation, as I know I should've done years ago, I was really, really scared that I'd be 'breaking' something which wouldn't fit together again - even though the longer I held the thought in my head, the more unpleasantly I realised that I could rewrite characters and storylines for the rest of my life without fixing the real problem there: the system and the -world-.
That could be one of the secret little things that always kept me from backing away from the hash of writes and rewrites, I suppose (though I'm still not sure what finally made me turn around and do it - extended, enforced just-thinking-and-not-writing time, maybe?). Anyway, I'll continue to have nerves for a LONG time, I imagine, until I start to actually see what the concrete results are, but at least I know I've certainly got nothing to fear from lack of inspiration. Everyone is starting to fit where I'm moving them.
I started out with the really weird, really sudden realisation of what the Elementals were (and how I'd already subconsciously tried to redo them properly, I reckon) - I hope no-one else saw a parallel when I first wrote about the Four Families of the Divine, because it'd just be embarrassing when I didn't. -.-; After that I realised who the Silver Maiden was, why elves don't die young (and shouldn't be capitalised ;P), and where the North is. I don't know exactly what dwarves are yet, or whether they wouldn't be better off as short humans, but this and many other things are still bubbling away in the pot. I think Immovan of all people will be the first to pop up in either an experimenty rewrite of 'The Lady's Incorruptible' or something redone at a similar time, but as 2007 clearly showed, who knows? :P
This much I do know: Nuan is going to be best friends with whoever the god of beer is (Family of Fire? Family of Water? Family of Firewater? Ahaha).
Oh, and Simbelyne needs to be awesome. I wonder how/if my brain will cope with that. >_>
I also have to give a farewell presentation like all the other departing exchange students next Friday, mind you. I really, really, really hate public speaking, let alone in a language where I could accidentally tell my audience to go marry a tuna at any given moment.
Still, as Japanese people would say, 'shiyou ga nai' - can't be helped. Though I might add that if I were to mispronounce that very phrase, as I am wont to do, it would mean there is no dealer.
I think you understand my trepidation.
I've been spending a LOT of time tucked up in my head or scribbling notes on bits of paper lately too (when I haven't been frantically typing away on rudely intruding reports :P). When I finally decided last year to scrap Seeking in its old incarnation, as I know I should've done years ago, I was really, really scared that I'd be 'breaking' something which wouldn't fit together again - even though the longer I held the thought in my head, the more unpleasantly I realised that I could rewrite characters and storylines for the rest of my life without fixing the real problem there: the system and the -world-.
That could be one of the secret little things that always kept me from backing away from the hash of writes and rewrites, I suppose (though I'm still not sure what finally made me turn around and do it - extended, enforced just-thinking-and-not-writing time, maybe?). Anyway, I'll continue to have nerves for a LONG time, I imagine, until I start to actually see what the concrete results are, but at least I know I've certainly got nothing to fear from lack of inspiration. Everyone is starting to fit where I'm moving them.
I started out with the really weird, really sudden realisation of what the Elementals were (and how I'd already subconsciously tried to redo them properly, I reckon) - I hope no-one else saw a parallel when I first wrote about the Four Families of the Divine, because it'd just be embarrassing when I didn't. -.-; After that I realised who the Silver Maiden was, why elves don't die young (and shouldn't be capitalised ;P), and where the North is. I don't know exactly what dwarves are yet, or whether they wouldn't be better off as short humans, but this and many other things are still bubbling away in the pot. I think Immovan of all people will be the first to pop up in either an experimenty rewrite of 'The Lady's Incorruptible' or something redone at a similar time, but as 2007 clearly showed, who knows? :P
This much I do know: Nuan is going to be best friends with whoever the god of beer is (Family of Fire? Family of Water? Family of Firewater? Ahaha).
Oh, and Simbelyne needs to be awesome. I wonder how/if my brain will cope with that. >_>