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

[curuchamion]

Well, I didn't actually write anything down, but I thought out about a scene and half of new material and suddenly discovered that one character's relationships to everyone else are not what I thought they were. (This keeps happening. I know who's here, and what ages they are, but... discovering who's related to whom how is an ongoing thing. O_O)

I only speak one language (English) well enough to read or write fic in it, so... no answer for the flamingo from me. XD

[glitteryv]

There's always that one character that keeps you guessing as far as how they are in your head vs. how they are behaving in the story. It's a cool thing that you figured it now. Hopefully, this realization will make your fic even groovier. :)

[curuchamion]

'There's always that one character that keeps you guessing as far as how they are in your head vs. how they are behaving in the story.'

Oh yeah... THAT would be Mort. Haven't figured him out yet. ;-) The one I did figure out was in reference to actual, literal, familial "relationships" - there's this little girl that I thought was a little sister to one set of characters and it turns out she's actually James-and-Mort's adopted daughter. (And at the same time I switched another set of characters - one of whom had formerly been tentatively in the position of said adopted daughter - to being Mort's niece and nephew instead of James's.) O_O

There's still one character that I have no idea how she got involved with being part of this very unusual family, but... yeah. This is a REALLY WEIRD THING in some ways. *g*

[anehan]

Writing fic is such an interesting process. It's like opening an unfamiliar box of chocolate and tasting each piece to find out what they taste like. And when you're through the first layer you find out that, oops, there's another layer there.