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Nov. 10th, 2011 08:53 pmI keep meaning to blog, but instead I write novel. All the fascinating incidents of my life will remain unreported, alas, as I play with the even more fascinating incidents in my time team's lives. This may well be the case until the weekend, when bits of the dissertation are supposed to return and kick me where it hurts*. Then I'll be working on that, and no doubt will be far more easily distracted.
What's really interesting about the novel is that I have a little translation-thing happening. I start to write dialogue for my people-who-actually-belong in 1305 and something in my mind says "Can't use that idea, the concept didn't exist. Need different wording because the implications of *those* words are impossible in my languages. "
In other not-news, my brain keeps confusing Dante with Petrarch. This is because for some entirely obscure reason I can't associate Petrarch with the Vaucluse. I've been there and walked where he walked and I still can't see it in my mind. It's a bit odd.
About the only news today, really, is that I'm guilty of overwork (again) but that it's work I love. In other words, I'm having a very fine week.
*Presumably this means I'll be able to tell people "I have a kick-ass dissertation."
What's really interesting about the novel is that I have a little translation-thing happening. I start to write dialogue for my people-who-actually-belong in 1305 and something in my mind says "Can't use that idea, the concept didn't exist. Need different wording because the implications of *those* words are impossible in my languages. "
In other not-news, my brain keeps confusing Dante with Petrarch. This is because for some entirely obscure reason I can't associate Petrarch with the Vaucluse. I've been there and walked where he walked and I still can't see it in my mind. It's a bit odd.
About the only news today, really, is that I'm guilty of overwork (again) but that it's work I love. In other words, I'm having a very fine week.
*Presumably this means I'll be able to tell people "I have a kick-ass dissertation."