Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Expert from my novel - Babel Fish style

I just saw this on Mindi Scott's (2010 debut author - I am so excited about her book) blog. You can read her entry here.

Basically the idea is to take an expert from your book, go to Babel Fish, translate it to another language then translate it back to English, and see what happens!

I took the last part I wrote last night / this morning and threw it on Babel Fish, hit English to French then French to English. This is what I got:


“Sorry kid,” He said, spreading his legacy out. “I' ve made my decision one this. When the garlic smelling mannequin walks in thesis doors, the only show she is going to get is my underwear being ripped off.”

My jaw dropped. He wouldn' T.

Wait.

Off race He would.

“Fine,” I said, shoving myself off the desk. I walked next to him, took has deep breath, and thanked the Lord we didn' T cuts cameras in young stag. I kicked off my heels, undid my short prop, and slipped my slacks right off.

“A-Augustus…” Thomas stuttered. “Is that has….?”

“Yes,” I replied, feeling my entire body blush. “That would Be has thong.”


Here's what it actually says:

“Sorry kid,” he said, spreading his legs out. “I’ve made my decision on this. When the garlic smelling mannequin walks in these doors, the only show she is going to get is my underwear being ripped off.”

My jaw dropped. He wouldn’t.

Wait.

Of course he would.

“Fine,” I said, shoving myself off the desk. I walked next to him, took a deep breath, and thanked the Lord we didn’t have cameras in here. I kicked off my heels, undid my button, and slipped my slacks right off.

“A-Augustus…” Thomas stuttered. “Is that a….?”

“Yes,” I replied, feeling my entire body blush. “That would be a thong.”

Sunday, May 23, 2010

And when you're not even looking - it happens

So this week I started doing some changes in my novel.

It first started with a major event that sent my character packing in the first place. Then a slight change of how my character left. After that idea came, I had to tweak a few key point relationships. When I did that, I had to switch a few things up, add a character in this scene, take one of out out of that one....

Then I just couldn't stop myself! It was suddenly making sense except for the one really awesome idea I had from the get go - the one that keeps my character there, but sometimes really awesome great ideas that you love still won't work. So that got vetoed too.

And now it all makes sense. Yay!

Also here is a snippet of my playlist for this novel. I say snippet because I couldn't find a lot of the songs on the site.



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Monday, May 17, 2010

Let's bring this blog back to life, shall we?

Once upon a time I decided this was going to be the blog I talked about all my writing then well, it didn't happen.

*hangs head in shame*

So here's what's going on. I'm starting over from scratch and making sure this sucker gets used for what it was meant to be used for: WRITING!

I've been working on a novel that I will be calling UNTITLED. (I have a name for it, but more in likely it will change. It's only had 5 different names by now.) I've worked on this story for almost 2 years. I know my characters like the back of my hand, and finally, FINALLY I think I've got. Really got the drive to finish this novel for once and for all. I started over from scratch which was crazy, yet crazy good idea. I even gave myself a fake deadline - August 10th. (My co-worker even circled it on the calender at work.) So what's the story that I've been trying to get out about? Well, I'll give you a half arse snyposis:

Augustus Brooks hasn't been home in over seven years. It would have been longer, but her grandmother decided to drop dead on her, and her mother guilt tripped her into coming back home for the funeral. (Plus there was the fear of her grandmother haunting her if she didn't attend the service.) Little did Augustus know that this was just one piece of the crazy scheme puzzle her parents had created for her. Now she's stuck in Yellow Falls. For how long? She has no idea, but one thing she does know is that having to face everyone she left behind, the one major regret, and an ex boyfriend she never really broke up with was never in her plans.

So that's it so far. I'll be frequently updating this blog with my journey of writing, rambles, and whatever seems to tickle my fancy.