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sigune ([personal profile] sigune) wrote2006-02-22 10:12 pm
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Multifaceted Awards

Right. I'll follow [livejournal.com profile] aerynstales's example and pimp my own Multifaceted nomination :-). Voting for the Awards is now open, so if you feel like wasting a vote on my As She Likes It (for the really innocent readers among you, it's R-rated and SS/OFC) in the Endurance category for challenge entries, then please be my guest and go here. I'll never know if you don't, and I won't win anyway, but if you haven't done your good deed for today, you might consider this ;-).

I have just got my very own computer since Sunday, and moving all my files I started to dip into my fics again. The number of unfinished stories on my hard drive is depressing ;-). Anyway - I have come to think that Mirror Mirror is really one of the best things I ever wrote; but I suppose that now that HBP overtook it, it is doomed to oblivion. Too bad.

If anyone here is interested in letting me know their opinion, I'd love to hear which of my stories (or art, if you like that better) you liked best, and why... Just curiosity :-).
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[identity profile] sylvanawood.livejournal.com 2006-02-23 08:58 am (UTC)(link)
I've read 'as she likes it' a while ago. I'll go vote for it. I haven't read most of your fics because the summaries tell me that they deal with stuff I want to write about, too, so I don't read, for now. But I really, really admire how you write. And it's not your native tongue, is it?
You know already how much I like your art.
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[identity profile] sigune.livejournal.com 2006-02-23 10:18 am (UTC)(link)
Hee! I know the problem. When I'm writing something, I don't want to be influenced by someone else's take on things.

No, English is not my native tongue; but though it means I need a native speaker beta (the wonderful [livejournal.com profile] todayiamadaisy)to point out real mistakes or things that sound plain odd, I think it also has its advantages. Sometimes I consciously use literal translations of Flemish expressions that in English look like unusual imagery :D. Maybe not being a native speaker makes it more inviting to play with language? I have great fun with it anyway. Before I started to write fanfic, I didn't realise how great the difference between academic English and story-English is; I needed a whole new vocabulary! What's your experience with this?

Thanks for the vote!

[identity profile] sylvanawood.livejournal.com 2006-02-23 12:41 pm (UTC)(link)
--Before I started to write fanfic, I didn't realise how great the difference between academic English and story-English is; I needed a whole new vocabulary! --

Indeed! Same here. And I find it very difficult. I have those scenes in my head and lack the vocabulary for them. LOL. Dictionaries have become my best friends. But it does improve my English, I hope. Especially my written English. Other than with casual posts, with fanfic I have to pay attention since the archives I use are strict and I don't want to cause too much trouble to my betas. And I so suck at punctuation.
I'm quite good with my own language and it bugs me that I'm not as good with English. LOL.
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