Greetings from Japan from your former ML!
How is everybody doing? I see you're already making plans for a kick-off party. I'm sad I won't be able to come, but I have a whole country to plan NaNo for this year. XD haha. I'm excited. I do miss all my former writing buddies though. How goes the plotting? Tell all.
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Steph -- ML -- Asia::Japan
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sept. 29, 2008 - 22 12
OMG HI. No one told me you went to Japan! That's nuts. I have a friend who is somewhere on that island, I believe. Just got there a week or so ago and is crazy excited. How is it there? How long have you been there? @_@ TELL ME EVERYTHING.
Plotting, for me, is going decently. I'm having issues with an antagonist, because currently, I got nothing. My plot's pretty shaky at best, but the characters are strong, so I have faith. I just need someone to oppose them with malicious intent, but the feeling that they're doing what's right. It boggles my mind.
Anyway, so that's how things are going on my end. It's good to hear from yooou.
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Genre: Fantasy Western
Title: Boot Hill
Art | Blog
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sept. 29, 2008 - 22 17
So you DID go on an exchange! You mentioned that you were going to Japan earlier, and then you just *poof* left without another word.
I can't believe you're going to try to ML for an entire country, much less one where you're not a native speaker of the language. Good luck!
My plot's coming along very nicely. You heard of Hatsune Miku over there? Yeah, I'm being the queen of nerds over here and writing a fanfiction for a character that represents vocal synthesizing software. Go me. Still, it's turning out to be surprisingly dark and dramatic. Though my version of Miku has a vindictive side that's kind of scaring me.
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sept. 29, 2008 - 22 54
Yeah, I went off to Japan alright. Got here last month. I'm doing study abroad for a year. I could have sworn I told you guys this awhile ago though. You know, about how you needed to be good MLs because I was flying the coop? Haha.
Japan is lovely. And my Japanese is coming along more than swimmingly, so I'm not too worried about the language barrier. Plus, at the moment it seems most of the people doing NaNo here speak English anyways. 50,000 words in English translates to weird-ness in Japanese, because verbs carry a lot of conjugation which cuts down hugely on word count, and there aren't spaces between words, just sentences, which the computer can't auto count; and 50,000 sentences would just be cruel to demand in a month. But there are a few Japanese speakers who've sent me e-mails, and I seem to be communicating ok with them. =)
I've already got some space donated for write ins, although when they'll be is still up for debate, and people who live more than an hour away are just going to have to take care of their own write ins and parties. It's kind of like running an elsewhere region: you do what you can for the area you can and the rest sorts itself out. Lindsay says I'm only really responsible for that. And to be an FAQ, and forum moderator, of course. I get all the questions from the whole country still. eek. =P
My plot is coming along slowly, but I'm developing this kind of large, subtle fantasy based out of japan, so, you know. haha. Being nerdy and using my study abroad stuff to write. But whatever. People say write what you know.
You'll have to keep me updated on the going-ons of flag. And I might have to challenge you to a regional word war or two. =)
----------Steph -- ML -- Asia::Japan
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oct. 2, 2008 - 21 19
Hm, seems like a good two or three posts (at least) in this thread got lost in the server crash. At any rate, I'm really tempted to take you up on that regional word war, even though the Japan region has four times as many as Flag and you guys'd probably kick our asses.
Also, I'm thinking about doing a virtual cross-pacific write-in with you guys. If we hold it late on the 10th our time (late afternoon the 11th for you), you could hold the write-in in a fairly normal time slot for you guys, and all of us who stayed up insanely late can sleep in on Veteran's Day.
Where are my email buttons!? Gr. I've got almost all other ML powers, but not emailing. This is getting a little inconvenient, really. . .
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oct. 3, 2008 - 03 28
Pester Lindsey.
Right now I've only got three people active in the Forum, so... you know, it might not be such an unbalanced word war. =)
As far as timing does for a virtual cross-pacific write in... well, I'm 16 hours ahead of you. So, if you guys stayed up a little late and got on at like, 10 pm, it'd be 2pm for me, and at midnight it'd be 4. Just for reference. =) Just count back 8 hours and say that time tomorrow.
----------Steph -- ML -- Asia::Japan
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oct. 3, 2008 - 07 32
LET'S DO IT.
----------NaNo '08
Genre: Fantasy Western
Title: Boot Hill
Art | Blog
50,723 / 50,000
oct. 3, 2008 - 09 53
Yeah, I know. But this way, if you couldn't get on until 5 or 6 your time, we could still do it and not have to suffer through the next day. XD
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