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

[mystiri_1]

I have finished one of last month's fics, and feel kind of embarrassed that it only took 119 words. I should have finished it last month, but hey, they go on this month's counter instead. It's a start, anyway.

I don't know any languages well enough to compare. I have picked up enough via fansubs to recognises when a translation is off, somehow (usually official translations hitting colloquial speech) but that is the extent of it. I have a couple of my fics that have been translated, which always makes me feel incredibly flattered and embarrassed - and I wonder just how they do read to someone who comes at them from another language. The fact that so many of my fandoms are Japanese in origin makes me aware of just how some concepts and ideas don't really translate between cultures.

[glitteryv]

Better to have that fic D-O-N-E than still hanging over your head. And hey, even better? That it took 119 rather than 1199!

[mystiri_1]

LOL It's literally out of the way - I have a tendency to leave docs open as a reminder that I'm working on them until forced to close them. Now I only have 3 open, but one of them is my wordcount file for this month.

[anehan]

Congratulations on finishing a fic! I hope you're properly proud of yourself. :D

The fact that so many of my fandoms are Japanese in origin makes me aware of just how some concepts and ideas don't really translate between cultures.

*nodnod* Having a fandom from a culture as radically different from the Western one as Japanese culture is really drives that point home. We often forget that fact when our fandoms are from another Western country. Yet even then there may be fundamental cultural differences. It's just that they are harder to spot because we're blinded by the superficial similarities.