Please stop me!!!!
Dec. 29th, 2007 12:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tingelWould someone please tell me to stop?! I don't know what to do anymore! I just keep doing one thing and I don't know how to stop and I don't get anything else done!
It's worse than the Sims
For some stupid reason I gave translating a try. I picked an HP fanfic I liked and started to work on it. That was yesterday before noon. Now I've about 30 pages of German translations and I still feel the urge to keep going! I have no idea why I'm doing this. And to think that these are my only few days off for the next several months!
What fascinates me so much?
I get to know the story very intimately. I've never before read anything so consciously paying attention to every word. And because I have to linger over every word the content also becomes more immediate. I feel more intensively what's happening. I'd have thought that fighting to get the exact wording would be distracting, but it isn't!
Seeing how much time it takes me to make any progress I get a healthy respect for the writer. How long must it have taken her to come up with everything and hammer it into form! Wow! (And why did I have to choose an epic with 55 long chapters and still going on???)
There's also a feeling of accomplishment. That's probably the best I can get as I'm not creative. I can't really write and everything I draw looks like stick figures.
I also have to go back to my sources, i.e. to the German edition of Harry Potter. I read the novels and fanfiction in English. Now I have to look up translations to conform with the German HP standard. A rediscovery. Oh, and I found this cool page, a translating project for the novels and fanfiction. They even made a dictionary for HP terms with a comparison of the official German translation and their alternatives. I've seen some examples of theirs that are so much better than the official translation. Maybe, just maybe I'll join their forum. I haven't yet figured out if they accept slash. And then there's the worry about exposing my first attempts to their experience. Aargh!
Okay, that's it. Something's niggling in my mind. Can't resist. Have to translate more!
Addendum:
*snigger*
It's worse than the Sims
For some stupid reason I gave translating a try. I picked an HP fanfic I liked and started to work on it. That was yesterday before noon. Now I've about 30 pages of German translations and I still feel the urge to keep going! I have no idea why I'm doing this. And to think that these are my only few days off for the next several months!
What fascinates me so much?
I get to know the story very intimately. I've never before read anything so consciously paying attention to every word. And because I have to linger over every word the content also becomes more immediate. I feel more intensively what's happening. I'd have thought that fighting to get the exact wording would be distracting, but it isn't!
Seeing how much time it takes me to make any progress I get a healthy respect for the writer. How long must it have taken her to come up with everything and hammer it into form! Wow! (And why did I have to choose an epic with 55 long chapters and still going on???)
There's also a feeling of accomplishment. That's probably the best I can get as I'm not creative. I can't really write and everything I draw looks like stick figures.
I also have to go back to my sources, i.e. to the German edition of Harry Potter. I read the novels and fanfiction in English. Now I have to look up translations to conform with the German HP standard. A rediscovery. Oh, and I found this cool page, a translating project for the novels and fanfiction. They even made a dictionary for HP terms with a comparison of the official German translation and their alternatives. I've seen some examples of theirs that are so much better than the official translation. Maybe, just maybe I'll join their forum. I haven't yet figured out if they accept slash. And then there's the worry about exposing my first attempts to their experience. Aargh!
Okay, that's it. Something's niggling in my mind. Can't resist. Have to translate more!
Addendum:
In 2008, 
tingel resolves to...
tingel resolves to...Get back in contact with some old get backers.
Spend more time with my books.
Go cooking three times a week.
Take evening classes in yaoi.
Spend less time on hunterxhunter.
Become a better anime.
Spend more time with my books.
Go cooking three times a week.
Take evening classes in yaoi.
Spend less time on hunterxhunter.
Become a better anime.
*snigger*
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Date: 2007-12-29 04:27 am (UTC)Spend more time with my
Tell my family about
Apply for a new
Volunteer to spend time with
Backup my
Tell you to stop? Okay...*ahem* STOP! LOL, I have a feeling that had no effect....♥
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Date: 2007-12-29 10:46 am (UTC)That's so nice! Hehehe!
About me stopping, let's just say: 6 freaking A.M.
I'm hopeless
But I did finish chapter 4.
Thank you for your kind attempt! *wink*