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Oct. 10th, 2015 02:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreIt is torrentially pouring outside and has been all day. I have nothing to do and no inclination to go anywhere, so I'm spending the day doing ridiculous things.
My seneshi story has developed an epistolary episode, which is fun, but it does mean that yesterday I took it into my head to a) write one of the letters, b) translate the thing into senesh, and c) write the whole thing out longhand in seneshi letters. Translating the letter meant figuring out how to create both past and present participles, refining how imperatives work (especially reflexive imperatives), and playing with how the evidential markers place emphasis or change the tone of a sentence. Which is fun, but a lot of work.
Now that part's done and I'm working on writing the thing out. And, since I eventually want it to be on unlined paper, that has meant carefully measuring and drawing lines in pencil so that my writing is straight. In fact, I'm doing the whole thing in pencil first, so that I can correct any mistakes I make in writing, and then I'm going to retrace it in pen.
This is an absurd amount of effort for a story I'm never going to tell anyone else.
My seneshi story has developed an epistolary episode, which is fun, but it does mean that yesterday I took it into my head to a) write one of the letters, b) translate the thing into senesh, and c) write the whole thing out longhand in seneshi letters. Translating the letter meant figuring out how to create both past and present participles, refining how imperatives work (especially reflexive imperatives), and playing with how the evidential markers place emphasis or change the tone of a sentence. Which is fun, but a lot of work.
Now that part's done and I'm working on writing the thing out. And, since I eventually want it to be on unlined paper, that has meant carefully measuring and drawing lines in pencil so that my writing is straight. In fact, I'm doing the whole thing in pencil first, so that I can correct any mistakes I make in writing, and then I'm going to retrace it in pen.
This is an absurd amount of effort for a story I'm never going to tell anyone else.
