Кое-какие мыслишки :)
Some thoughts :)
Фото для просто так.
Just a random photo.
Ногти
Несколько лет назад случилось такое. Подруге очень не нравились мои ногти, мол, надо подпилить. Бегала она вокруг меня, бегала, и я, так и быть, позволила ей поколдовать над моими лапами. Результат? Да, ногти вышли ровненькие, красивенькие... и начали слоиться и ломаться чуть ли не на следующий день. Они у меня никогда вообще не слоятся, не железные, но где-то около того. Вывод? Не надо слушать тех, у кого другие приоритеты в жизни :). Всяк горазд давать советы со своей колокольни. Мне нравятся сильные, крепкие ногти, даже если они, о боже, не идеально ровные. Если я не буду жить так, как хотела бы для себя, то кто сделает это за меня?
(Пожалуйста, не пишите мне советы про правильное подпиливание ногтей, у меня нет времени на такие дела ^.^ Спасибо.)
Nails
A few years ago my friend was obsessed with my nails. They were not good enough for her, and she was begging me to let her fix 'em. Okay, I let her do the nail file magic to my claws. And what did I get? Almost on the next day my now better looking nails started flaking! It never ever happens to them. Maybe they're not made of iron but of something like that anyway. My conclusion? Don't listen to people with priorities different from yours :). Everybody is ready to give you advice, but they live a different life. I like my nails strong, even if – oh my god! - not perfectly looking. If you don't live your life the way you want, who else will do it for you?
(Please don't send me tips on nail filing, I don't have time for this stuff ^.^ Thanks.)
Кошки
На днях я много думала о своих любимцах Janne Da Arc. Они начали выступать с концертами и записывать качественные альбомы, когда им было всего ничего. Мне уже 26, а и половины важных целей в жизни не достигнуто. Nightwish записали свой дебютник, когда им было где-то по 18-19 (!) лет, и я обожаю этот альбом, там такие клавиши! Почему эти группы достигли так много в юности, а я всё ещё не опубликовала ни одной книги? :) Потому что они занимались музыкой каждый день часами, они жили этим. Работаю ли я над книгой регулярно, много? Обычно нет. Я не торчу часами перед телевизором, у нас его и нету, но всё-таки много времени уделяю ненужным мелочам или трачу его впустую из-за неорганизованности, которая периодически со мной случается. Я хочу стать профессиональным писателем, хочу говорить свободно на финском и японском, хочу иметь сильное тело. Работать надо, работать! У меня нет каких-то волшебных талантов к языкам или писательству, но у меня есть много пота, крови и слёз, которые я готова потратить на эти дела :). И страсть.
К чему привели эти мысли? Я тут же села работать над одной из героинь (моя любимица из всех героев этой книжки ^^), позанималась японским несколько часов кряду (столько иероглифов, столько иероглифов *_*) и на следующий день начала читать новую книжку на финском — в 4 часа ночи :).
Cats
Lately I was thinking about my dear Janne Da Arc. These guys started playing live and recording nice albums when they were very young. I'm already 26, and not even a half of the most important goals in life is achieved. Nightwish released their debut CD when they were 18-19 (!), and it's an awesome album with beautiful keyboards, I love it! Why these bands achieved so much so early, and I haven't published anything yet? ^^ Well, they were working very hard, rehearsing like every day for many hours. Do I work on my book regularly, a lot? Usually, no. I don't spend hours watching TV (actually we don't have TV at all), but I way too often waste my time either doing unnecessary things or by just being not very organized, which does happen to me from time to time. I want to become a professional writer, to be fluent in Finnish and Japanese, to have a strong body. Work, work, work! I don't have any magic talents for languages or writing, but I'm ready to put all my blood, sweat and tears into doing them. And my passion :).
So how did these thoughts affect me? At once I sat down to work on a profile of one of my characters (she's my favourite from this novel ^^), then I studied Japanese for a few hours (so many kanji, so many kanji *_*), and on the next day I started reading a new book in Finnish – at 4 a.m. :).
Книжка про кошек, похоже, что там и людей нет. Эти кошки даже ходят на танцы о_О Прочла первую главу перед сном, понравилось, очень лёгкий текст.
This book is about cats, and it seems there are no humans there. Cats even go to dances there o_O I read the first chapter before sleep, pretty nice and easy to read.
Парковка
А сегодня я потащила мужа на парковку. Угадайте зачем :). Машины у нас нет и в ближайшее время не будет, ну её, я лучше пешочком, но парковка мне была очень-очень нужна. Потому что... парковка играет большую роль в начале моей книжки! Ну, кто угадал, что я проводила исследование в полевых условиях на благо литературы? :) Мы обошли парковку торгового центра Sello со всех сторон, я набросала кучу идей, ура! Быть писателем порой очень забавно :). Интересно, куда придётся идти в следующий раз. Вот такие дела. Пойду писать в другой блог, у меня их четыре. (Т_Т)
A Parking Lot
And today I took my hubby to a parking lot. Guess why :). We don't own a car and don't plan to buy it anytime soon (I'd better walk), but I really really needed to go to a parking lot. Because... a parking lot plays a big role in the beginning of my book! Did anyone guess it right that I was researching something in field conditions for the sake of literature? :) We went to the parking lot of Sello shopping mall. I got lots of ideas, yay! Sometimes it's so funny to be a writer ^.^ I wonder where I'd have to go next time... Okay, now I need to write a post for my other blog. I have four blogs. (T_T)
Ну все,с таким рвением мировая писательская известность гарантирована:-)
ReplyDeleteХехе, сразу уж и мировая? :)
DeleteЧитаю и радуюсь за тебя, как ты всё успеваешь и как много всего делаешь)) Даже на стоянку ради книги пошла :) А у меня лень (и вечное желание спать) всегда мотивацию загоняют куда-то далеко-далеко, что она возвращается ко мне через ну очень длительное время :)
ReplyDeleteВ универе у меня времени хватало только доползти до подушки и вырубиться вмиг :) Ну и на покушать :D Сейчас я и высыпаюсь, и времени больше. Просто надо пережить эти чудесные университетские годы, и будет у тебя и мотивация, и время, и силы ;)
DeleteОй, а я когда училась чем только не занималась... И журналистикой, и КВН, и СТЭМ, и в молодежном парламенте заседала, и какие-то круглые столы, поэтические вечера, конференции и еще куча всего-всего, уж и не упомню все, чем занималась. И при этом каким-то волшебным образом умудрялась учиться на отлично на двух (!) факультетах очно и вечерне и на обоих заработать совершенно самостоятельно по красному диплому. И мотивация была, и силы.
DeleteА сейчас вроде и работаю дома, и высыпаюсь выше крыши... А мотивации нет, стремиться вроде как и не к чему... Разве что вышиваю, да мыловарю изредка.
Ирина Delenn, не представляю, как это всё можно успеть)) Если у меня лекции допустим с 8:30 до 18:00 (а бывало и до 19:45), домашние задания, курсовая и т.п., я не успеваю вообще ничего. Потому что мы учимся 3 года (и набираем 124 credit points), пока на других факультетах 120 credit points набирают за 4 года. И спать я уж очень люблю))
Delete"I don't have any magic talents for languages or writing." Merepek! That's Malay for nonsense. :DDD I learned it from a fellow blogger in Malaysia. You're Russian; you write perfect, flowing English; you're learning Finnish and Japanese. Maybe it requires hard work, but the end-result on your English blog looks effortless, and isn't that a hallmark of good writing?
ReplyDelete(I'm serious. You have a wonderful ability to segue from quirky to serious, and your sentences have a natural rhythm. You can start worrying when you hit 50 and you still haven't published anything.)
I think you need to include a chocolate shop in your book so that you can do extensive, meticulous field research.
PS: What language is your book?
*blushing* Thank you ^.^ What I meant to say was that all I have is a result of a lot of work, not a magic pill, so it means that anyone can learn a language if working hard enough. I want to inspire more people to study languages or write or whatever they always wanted to do but thought they didn't have the talent for it.
DeleteI confess I have something like a talent for Russian, because it has always been flawless. I don't remember all the rules (and Russian is hard even for natives) but I just feel that this is the way to write it. It's natural. But my English wasn't like this. I remember times when I could easily say "What do you did?" ^^
I'm not worried I'm not published yet, I just like to think of those people who achieved something a lot earlier to make it push me forward ^^ I do slack sometimes, you know.
A chocolate shop? Well, hubby would be delighted to help me with that one, he has not just a sweet tooth, but a sweet jaw. I can't eat so many sweets, I'm a veggie-type ^^ I dreamed of eating artichokes tonight o_O
All my books probably will be in Russian. I think it's a very good language for literature, very expressive. I don't like how it sounds, but I love reading and writing in it. And Russian punctuation is awesome (headache for some, pleasure for me ^^).
I agree that anyone can learn any language with enough effo ...
DeleteWait. No. Actually I don't. Experiences in my own classroom seems to indicate that some students have no instinct for any language except (and perhaps including) the one they were breastfed since birth.
Writing? I will believe until the day I die that good writers are born, not made. You can hone your craft, but you can't create it, god-like, from nothing. (I don't think you have to worry about this one. Grin.)
I'm glad you're using other young achievers to push you, because that means we don't have to wait until you're 50 to read your book. It will be in Russian? Help! Does that mean I have to learn Russian now?! o_0
Punctuation? Why is Russian punctuation awesome? What's the thing about Russian punctuation? Post, please! ^^
DeleteJust look at the length of our comments! (^.^)
DeleteI learned English grammar all by myself. My school knowledge of English was "lots of words, zero grammar". Academic approach just doesn't work for everyone. I highly recommend this blog:
http://www.fluentin3months.com/
for non'academic language hacking tips ^^
My plan is to write books so good that publishers from abroad will be begging for rights, lol So don't worry ;-) And even if you decide to learn Russian, you have A LOT of time ahead - I'm a slow writer.
Russian punctuation... well, it's musical. It's like pauses in music, all those commas and other things whose names I don't know bring such a nice rhythm to sentences. (A video where I read a Russian text with lots of commas is planned for 33 letters blog.) Commas also indicate a lot of stuff that makes sentences less confusing even if they're very long. They let you have weirder order of words without confusing your reader, because commas or their lack will show to which noun this participle clause belongs and such. Punctuation marks bring so many nuances to the meaning.
Am I a comma nerd now? o_O
So intresting. I've never got any thought like this about our comma, etc. It seems a little eхaggerating for me. Are you really sure?
DeleteI am. Remember "Казнить нельзя, помиловать"? :)
DeleteI'll punish not, forgive you
DeleteI'll punish, not forgive you
Do you agree it's identical sample?
Doesn't sound natural to me. We need a native's opinion on this :)
DeleteNo matter how it sounds to anyone.
DeleteI assume, these clauses both are impeccable in regard to the languish.
What languish? o_O
DeleteAnyway, let's imagine this can be done in English as well. So what? You can't do it in Finnish and Japanese, for example, and in many other languages. I don't say Russian punctuation is unique, I say it's complex and I like it. English punctuation is much simpler and thus boring for me.
In fact I hardly know the punctuation at all:) And it doesn't depend on the languish I write:) It most likely is the reason I can't compare or properly appreciate all those subtle punctuation nuances:)
Deletetherefore all the languages(this spelling is a little better, is not?) are just the same for me in regard to this issue:)
I think "I'll punish not, forgive you" is a sentence you'd find in poetry, but not in ordinary conversation. (Wouldn't it be fun if ordinary conversation sounded like poems?!)
DeleteThe best "punctuation makes a difference" example in English remains this classic:
woman without her man is nothing
Woman, without her man, is nothing.
Woman! Without her, man is nothing.
Then there's the English Christmas carol "God rest ye merry gentlemen". It should have a comma. Where should that comma be added, d'you think? ;)
Japanese has very simple punctuation compared to many other languages, perhaps because particles and verb conjugations tell you what belongs where. Bit like Latin: word order isn't that important.
PS: You're not a comma nerd; you're a nerd, full stop. :DDD
Ah, poetry... Lord Byron to the rescue!
DeleteI speak not, I trace not, I breathe not thy name,
There is grief in the sound, there is guilt in the fame;
But the tear that now burns on my cheek may impart
The deep thoughts that dwell in that silence of heart.
I like it, "Woman! Without her, man is nothing." ^.^
But I don't! I'm against the male sex discrimination anywhere:) Although the example is really good. It seems if you had learnt about english соммаs much more, you would fall in love with them too:)
DeleteSometimes love happens from the first sight, and no matter how many times you look, you won't fall in love if the first sight didn't work ^^
DeleteMay I cut in here? Heated arguments(am I using a proper word?)sound interesting. As for this comment, I'm against it.
DeleteI know some develop an "acquired taste" and sometimes it is likely to be getting secured one.
вот и я задумалась...столько всего хочу и что я для этого делаю? Маловато)) безумно интересно куда тебя еще заведет твоя книга, надеюсь расскажешь))
ReplyDeleteСкорее всего расскажу, если это не будет раскрывать сюжет и т.п. :)
Delete"Быть писателем порой очень забавно" - забираю в цитатник ) Эх и я мечтала написать чего-нибудь этакое, желательно с собственными иллюстрациями, несколько раз пробовала, но дальше мелочей не ушла. Ню нетю у мню гениальной идеи, повезло детям, не придется очередного классика изучать )
ReplyDeleteА мне кажется, нужно просто писать, не думая о том, будет это что-то гениальное да этакое или нет :)
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