I don't speak Music. I wish I could, but I can't.
I love catching up in this thread. And, yes, as a non-writer, this is pretty much all I get to post here, but I still want to state that.
Travers: Perhaps you'll favor us with a demonstration while we're here. Buffy: You mean, like, right now? 'Cause, already had my recommended daily dose of fights tonight.
'Potential'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Nilly - Apr 29, 2004 7:47:10 am PDT #4309 of 10001
Swouncing
§ ita § - Apr 29, 2004 7:48:08 am PDT #4310 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
as a non-writer
As a non-short-form-English-fiction writer, you mean. Don't make me have to look at you sternly.
Aims - Apr 29, 2004 7:49:22 am PDT #4311 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
as a non-writer
So what would you call what you do? Cause, that's writing, yo!
Nilly - Apr 29, 2004 7:55:16 am PDT #4312 of 10001
Swouncing
That's funny - I just figured why ita wants to look at me sternly, while I just said in one word what she said in hyphenated-phrase.
I use in my head the Hebrew word for "writer", which isn't derived from the verb "to write", it's derived from the word for "story", or, even closely, for "book". And I really am not that kind of writer, the one that shapes stories and selects words carefully for them to best express the story. I'm not the story/book-writer, the Hebrew word. But, obviously, posting here, I write, it's the only way I can communicate on screen.
I wish I figured that out before vw's paper on translation, it's a perfect example.
For the record, the verb for "writing", in Hebrew, is "likhtov", so if I say that I write, I say that I "kotevet" (or "kotev", if I were a man). The word for "story" is "sipur", the word for "book" is "sefer", and a story/book writer is "sofer" for a man or "soferet" for a woman. So I am not a "soferet", but I "kotevet".
t /lightbulb over my head
Pix - Apr 29, 2004 8:32:21 am PDT #4313 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
I am so fascinated by that linguistical clarification!
Also, Nilly, I think you get super bonus points for writing (in a non-soferet way) so beautifully in more than one language.
erikaj - Apr 29, 2004 9:03:14 am PDT #4314 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Yes, Nilly is a linguistic goddess.
deborah grabien - Apr 29, 2004 9:08:33 am PDT #4315 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Nilly - with all due respect to my cherished beta readers - is the single most instinctive beta reader I've ever encountered. And possibly because English is not Nilly's first language, she catches little things in continuity that neither I, nor most EFL speakers and readers, will catch.
Above rubies, yo.
erikaj - Apr 29, 2004 9:16:19 am PDT #4316 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod. "And I guess I'll just wallow in self-pity now."(/Pissy!Munchkin) :)
sj - Apr 29, 2004 11:21:30 am PDT #4317 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
sj, yours is very powerful. I do wonder if your using the phrase, "awkward teenager" twice was deliberate, for emphasis and comparison?
Not deliberate. I should look at it again. It was such a terribly difficult piece to write that even though I edited a few times, I may have missed some major flaws because I was afraid I would stop myself from posting it.
erikaj - Apr 29, 2004 11:27:48 am PDT #4318 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
BTDT. I still do that.