Not exactly reading, author's notes, poking at fic, etc.
I have my copy of Fruits Basket 23! But here's the problem: my habit is to tell myself sternly that I can't sit down properly with a new volume if I don't get enough work done (or whatever). And this week has been utterly insane, so while I've been working every day (and am way ahead of my deadline), I haven't been getting as much done as I want to. So I've had the book for over 24 hours and haven't read it...
...I mean, except for flipping through to all of my favorite parts and reading the very ending and glancing at the author's notes and stuff. But that doesn't count. (I'm not being facetious--it's not like I've never read it before. It's not the proper full experience of reading the entire book in English in a comfy chair.)
It is a little funny to read the author's notes, though, because I'm used to adapting Takaya-sensei's notes in Phantom Dream. Even though that was written years (*checks* Almost a decade!) before this book, and even though it's been through different translators and a different adapter, I still recognize the way she writes her notes. I hope that readers will be able to look at the notes in both series and still get that sense of sameness despite all the different brains her words get filtered through.
It also feels a little funny switching between professional and fannish things in the same post, but whatever. ^^; Last night I sat down and started work on a new scene for one of the two connected stories I need to get finished for 30_kisses (...sometime this year. I wouldn't be surprised if I have to ask for another extension. Gah). And then it was 1 AM, and during its usual "I'm not going to sleep and you can't make me!" routine my brain helpfully pointed out that I probably don't need that scene (and several as-yet-unwritten scenes that go with it) at all, and that the story will probably be tighter without it. (Probably not coincidentally, all the things I've slowly been excising from the outline in hopes of ever finishing have been connected in some way. There may be some other story there, but it's not one I've committed to ever writing, so it can bloody well simmer for a long, long time if it wants.)
[manually x-posted to DW]
...I mean, except for flipping through to all of my favorite parts and reading the very ending and glancing at the author's notes and stuff. But that doesn't count. (I'm not being facetious--it's not like I've never read it before. It's not the proper full experience of reading the entire book in English in a comfy chair.)
It is a little funny to read the author's notes, though, because I'm used to adapting Takaya-sensei's notes in Phantom Dream. Even though that was written years (*checks* Almost a decade!) before this book, and even though it's been through different translators and a different adapter, I still recognize the way she writes her notes. I hope that readers will be able to look at the notes in both series and still get that sense of sameness despite all the different brains her words get filtered through.
It also feels a little funny switching between professional and fannish things in the same post, but whatever. ^^; Last night I sat down and started work on a new scene for one of the two connected stories I need to get finished for 30_kisses (...sometime this year. I wouldn't be surprised if I have to ask for another extension. Gah). And then it was 1 AM, and during its usual "I'm not going to sleep and you can't make me!" routine my brain helpfully pointed out that I probably don't need that scene (and several as-yet-unwritten scenes that go with it) at all, and that the story will probably be tighter without it. (Probably not coincidentally, all the things I've slowly been excising from the outline in hopes of ever finishing have been connected in some way. There may be some other story there, but it's not one I've committed to ever writing, so it can bloody well simmer for a long, long time if it wants.)
[manually x-posted to DW]