WIP challenge day 1 check-in

[anehan]

It's the first day of June and time for another WIP challenge. Today, we begin with a poll!

Poll #7152 WIP challenge day 1 check-in

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12

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What fic-ly things did you do today?

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Write
6 (50.0%)

Edit
3 (25.0%)

Research
2 (16.7%)

Send to beta
0 (0.0%)

Procrastinate
4 (33.3%)

Something else
4 (33.3%)

And how does that make you FEEL?

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Amazing!
1 (8.3%)

Okay.
6 (50.0%)

Meh.
3 (25.0%)

Don't ask.
2 (16.7%)

What is your fic all about? Describe in five words or less.

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Today's discussion topic is language. The fanfic flamingo has something to say on the subject:



[Background — a six piece pie style colour split in three shades of pink. Foreground — the long neck and face of a pink flamingo.

Top text: love fanfiction in English

Bottom text: laugh uncontrollably over how ridiculous it sounds when reading some in your own language]


So, do you usually write fic in your native language or in another language? Why? What about reading fic? Is the flamingo right and fic in your own language sounds ridiculous?

Comments

[anyssia]

Still haven't written anything since the last two weeks ^^;;; But I have a four days week-end starting tomorrow, so I'm hoping that I'll manage to motivate myself.


Not, haven't written a fic in my native language in years! (which is French, by the way). I began writing in English because the French FFVII fandom was about dead five years ago and because I had been reading in English for more than a decade already.
It felt weird to write in French and I couldn't find my words: my ideas all came to me in English ;p

[glitteryv]

Here's hoping that you get that itch to write soon!

my ideas all came to me in English

LOL, same here. My native language is Spanish, btw.

[anyssia]

I'm crossing my fingers too ^^

Wow, I wonder how many people got sucked in the English fandom and can't come out now ;p

[anehan]

Heh, I haven't written anything in the last several weeks either. Let's hope the long weekend will motivate us both.

*nodnod* It would be so weird to write anything in my native language. I have read fic only in English for such a long time that I associate English with fanfic, whether it's reading or writing.

[anyssia]

Same here, except that it's the whole Internet that I associate with English xD

It kinds of annoys my mother, because every time I send her an e-mail, I forget myself and add a words in English or begin a sentence in French and finish it in English. ^^;;

Crossing my fingers. I took care of most of the flist/circle stuff today, so I hope I'll manage to get myself to write tomorrow.