There are things for me to do! Which I am doing and also trying to Google things to read for title ideas whilst I have to wait on our systems to finish uploading.
One of our recycling bins here is apparently named Melvin. This seems like the kind of vitally important information about my life that I should let you know. :D
Yes it is!!! Vitally important to my health and happiness :) I told you that our car is named Leviathan, right?
I LOVE the suggestion of title but I can't remember what we decided about using Latin in the titles. I might be kind of against it? Though I could be talked out of it? It just seems kind of inaccessible--although if we're writing this for us, I don't know if we care about that :) The bottom like is that I would be happy doing either buy have a slight preference for calling it "Either I shall find a way." and leaving out the rest of the quote because I am pretentious like that. And then using the full quote in latin for an epigram?
What do you think?
(Also meeting is finally over! Will be able to respond much more quickly--until phone dies at least!)
I don't think you did! But I am so glad it is. :D You told me the name of something else though.
I think we decided to go with English? I was just being lazy and went with Latin because I figured you would know what I'm talking about. (I think our decision was based on going w/ English because if we used a Greek title, the Greek fonts would be a problem.) and I am perfectly fine with having it that way. :D
So...we have a title??? I am SO EXCITED!!! Oh my god. It's a real story!!! :D :D :D
I mean it was before but now it's realer! It's the realest!
(My sister was going to be my valentine an she cancelled in me just now because she is sick and I am SO SAD. Clearly the answer is to stare at the AMAZING HEART someone gave me on LJ :D
(thank you thank you thank you!!!)
So in my head their first valentines day (to elaborate on our earlier convo) goes like this:
The morning of, raven texts Charles to say she received six valentines and btw what is he doing with Erik? And Charles completely panics.
So he probably gets Erik flowers (white lilies because they are the only thing left in the entire store and they smell like a funeral home) and somehow manages to get a last minute reservation at the nicest restaurant in town by charming the maitre d' over the phone and so they sit in horrible, awful silence in the candlelight and watch the people around them kiss and three proposals and Erik is sneezing the whole time because he ha allergies he refuses to acknowledge to pollen and it is so awful and Erik says, when they leave, "if you force me to do that again next year, I am breaking up with you now" and Charles says "thank god" and thus the no valentines day tradition is born?
Yay! I hate titling too, you know that. I am so thrilled :)
Hahaha, I would love to be your Internet valentine! (even if it was BOOM in the middle of a sentence!) I would offer to watch football but unless we can start it at around 10:30 I can't do it, as I have an 8:30 meeting the following morning...
Yes! Sparkles and glitter but not in my apt!!!! It's perfect!!
I'm do glad you like! I am adding this to my mental queue of things what need to be written :)
Yay! :D :D I can probably be home by that time, but I kind of want to do more editing? I feel like I'm in edit/write mode and should probably try to utilize that. :D?
Exactly! :D :D
I AM SO EXCITED FOR ALL THE THINGS WHAT NEED TO BE WRITTEN.
but then again, so do i, so i can't blame it all on you :)
so here's where i get thinky again: i think at the end of the day, what it comes down to is that you always want to show rather than tell, and that often means adding more, rather than taking some out. i mean, i'm open to going through it at the end with the intention of shortening it, but i think everything we've added makes it stronger in some way. so i'm not terribly worried :)
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(Maybe take out one of the fascinatings?)
:/ Hmm, I will go through the fight more later tonight with how it fits with the story?
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How's work going?
Phones are such an amazing invention: I am texting right before my meeting starts :)
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Aww, yay! :D :D
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I LOVE the suggestion of title but I can't remember what we decided about using Latin in the titles. I might be kind of against it? Though I could be talked out of it? It just seems kind of inaccessible--although if we're writing this for us, I don't know if we care about that :) The bottom like is that I would be happy doing either buy have a slight preference for calling it "Either I shall find a way." and leaving out the rest of the quote because I am pretentious like that. And then using the full quote in latin for an epigram?
What do you think?
(Also meeting is finally over! Will be able to respond much more quickly--until phone dies at least!)
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I think we decided to go with English? I was just being lazy and went with Latin because I figured you would know what I'm talking about. (I think our decision was based on going w/ English because if we used a Greek title, the Greek fonts would be a problem.) and I am perfectly fine with having it that way. :D
(Yay! I hope phone doesn't die soon??)
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I mean it was before but now it's realer! It's the realest!
(My sister was going to be my valentine an she cancelled in me just now because she is sick and I am SO SAD. Clearly the answer is to stare at the AMAZING HEART someone gave me on LJ :D
(thank you thank you thank you!!!)
So in my head their first valentines day (to elaborate on our earlier convo) goes like this:
The morning of, raven texts Charles to say she received six valentines and btw what is he doing with Erik? And Charles completely panics.
So he probably gets Erik flowers (white lilies because they are the only thing left in the entire store and they smell like a funeral home) and somehow manages to get a last minute reservation at the nicest restaurant in town by charming the maitre d' over the phone and so they sit in horrible, awful silence in the candlelight and watch the people around them kiss and three proposals and Erik is sneezing the whole time because he ha allergies he refuses to acknowledge to pollen and it is so awful and Erik says, when they leave, "if you force me to do that again next year, I am breaking up with you now" and Charles says "thank god" and thus the no valentines day tradition is born?
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(Awww. I have no valentine? I will be your Internet Valentine? and I realize that's not the way you ask someone to be your Valentine. :D? :D?)
(You're welcome! I was like, THIS CAN SPARKLE WITHOUT GETTING GLITTER ALL OVER YOUR APARTMENT. IT'S PERFECT.)
I am completely good with this being how their first Valentines goes. :D :D Poor Erik. Poor funeral home flowers.
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Hahaha, I would love to be your Internet valentine! (even if it was BOOM in the middle of a sentence!) I would offer to watch football but unless we can start it at around 10:30 I can't do it, as I have an 8:30 meeting the following morning...
Yes! Sparkles and glitter but not in my apt!!!! It's perfect!!
I'm do glad you like! I am adding this to my mental queue of things what need to be written :)
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Exactly! :D :D
I AM SO EXCITED FOR ALL THE THINGS WHAT NEED TO BE WRITTEN.
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I think I am going to head home now so I too can get more editing done! What is this work of which you speak?
Me too me too! That master timeline really does need to be written--sometime in the future. :)
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slkrchck: why can't I write medium sized fic like a normal person?
esrafil: because! feelings! things!
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I am good with this author note. :)
especially because I keep making suggestions that result in more writing.
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but then again, so do i, so i can't blame it all on you :)
so here's where i get thinky again: i think at the end of the day, what it comes down to is that you always want to show rather than tell, and that often means adding more, rather than taking some out. i mean, i'm open to going through it at the end with the intention of shortening it, but i think everything we've added makes it stronger in some way. so i'm not terribly worried :)
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and I completely agree on showing rather than telling. ALL OF THE WORDS.
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i mean, are you delighted to go and reread ALL THE WORDS when it's done? because i am. so as long as we're delighted, i think it's okay :)
also, it's charles. if a story about him weren't hugely long, how would you know that you had the right charles f. xavier?
I ASK YOU THAT.
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(from what you've sent me thus far, it seems very much like him. i am super excited for it! yay!)
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(i'm glad you do! because i have really strong opinions about him as you may have noticed...)