editing progress report; life update; thoughts on the pronunciation of visual labels

[edenfalling]

Have received beta responses for "Secrets" chapter 10. Thank you, lasultrix and aichmetes! (Also, Cat? I love you and you are insightful as always, but goddamn it, write larger. Or use post-it notes. Your handwriting is as bad as my grandmother's, and that's saying something.)

*beats head against desk*

I knew it wasn't a great chapter. It suffers from A) being a transitional chapter, with the strongest scene occuring midway (and connecting only tenuously to the chapter's overall theme), B) attempting to paper over some awkward and/or inexplicable bits of CoS, and C) being written piecemeal over approximately 7 months. I already edited the hell out of it, and now I have two opinions on what needs more editing. Which is good! Don't ever think it isn't! But it is such a pain to pick my words apart and stitch them back together, especially when we're talking 9,000+ words, which themselves must mesh with the 90,000+ words in chapters 1-9.

*beats head some more*

I will do my best to fix it up and post it sometime next week.

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What I did this week:

1. Wrote about 300 words of "Finding Marea"
2. Wrote about 500 words of "Guardian"
3. Finally got around to downloading and arranging bits of "Chrysanthe," an original story (modern-day fantasy, dark-ish) that I left as an attachment on an email message for about a year
4. Wrote another 400 words of "Chrysanthe"
5. Read chapters 1-30 of Hunter x Hunter

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Speaking of #5, how does one pronounce that title? Hunter 'versus' Hunter? Hunter 'ecks' Hunter? Hunter 'times' Hunter? Inquiring minds want to know.

On a related subject, inquiring minds also want to know how to pronounce pairing abbreviations in Gundam Wing fandom. 1+2 -- meaning friendship and/or kissing but no sex between Heero and Duo -- seems likely to be 'one plus two.' But 1x2... ah now, how to say that? 1 'times' 2? For some reason, I've ended up mentally saying that as 'one by two,' as if I'm talking about the dimensions of a plank of wood. Hey, we all have our mental quirks.

Anyway, is there a commonly accepted verbalization of that style of pairing notation? Since FF.net banned the / character in story summaries, I've seen 'x' as a pairing notation appear in a growing number of fandoms... at least in fandoms that don't use portmanteau ship names (like McShep for McKay/Sheppard, or NaruSasuSaku for Naruto/Sasuke/Sakura, etc.).

For that matter, do people commonly pronounce the / in pairing names? That is, would you say 'aitch slash aitch arr' for H/Hr? Or would you just say 'aitch aitch arr'? I don't (mentally) pronounce the / mark, but since I've only discussed ships online, and therefore in writing, I have no audio references.

Comments

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

well it's mostly tha I m'blind .So if it's all in acarton way liek captioned images or no actual ocr text I cna't do anything wit hit.

[alliancesjr.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay. Well, there's also text translations. I'm pretty sure that they're on NarutoFan as well, but I don't know how good they are, or how descriptive they are. There are also some sites out there with episode (and chapter, for the manga) summaries, with varying amounts of description. I can start searching later tonight when I get home, if you like.

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

ooh thanks! I havea nextra day off this weekendso i'll chek that site out.
speakign of texttranscripts..do you happenedto know where I can find trasncritps liek that for other comicbooks/graphic novels?I tried to google but i got sentencesthat contain all those words but I'm also scaredto plunge into a site that is full of nonsensical adds adn other weirdstuff.
hey. perhaps i'l lendup readign manga this way after all lol.