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Feb. 19th, 2009 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yuuagoI slept in very late today. That's unusual for me. However, in my defence, I did not sleep well during the night. I kept waking up. Not sure why that is. Maybe I had too much coffee too late in the evening.
I re-downloaded Google Earth. Should've done this earlier. It makes writing so much easier. I have a lot of trouble writing something if I can't picture the surroundings. This is why I prefer to write things set in Canada; if I can situate it in a place that I have been to, then I can picture it in my head, and make that picture come out on the paper. Ah, the ice on the Saskatchewan River, or the sagebrush dusting Drumheller's hills, or the jack pines and poplars of the northern forests~ But when I'm writing something completely unfamiliar, I just can't do it; I look in my mind and I don't see much of anything. Or - and this is almost worse - I superimpose a city I am familiar with onto an area that I am not familiar with. So in that case, you'll have a Toronto that looks like Edmonton, or a Tallinn that looks like Saskatoon.
... That last bit, that one, makes me feel very very silly indeed. Thank the gods that I DL'd GE and checked some details on Wikipedia before I wrote any outdoor scenes. Sure, the cities are about the same size in Area (Tallinn is only a tiny bit bigger) but the population is twice the size. That kind of boggles my mind. I guess everything is really packed together.
Also - Yuuago, you moron. Don't go on about rivers in a city that doesn't really have them. And who needs rivers, when the city is situated right on the Baltic Sea? *facepalm* Oyy, note to self, if you must use a Canadian city to get your mind in the right state, think Halifax. *sigh*
Anyway. Yes, I feel very silly indeed. But now that I have a way to orient myself it won't be so bad. *pause* I never used to be this picky. It's a recent thing. It's just, like - well, okay. Since I started writing for this fandom I've realized "Holy shit. Some of the people reading my stuff might actually be from these places." (Especially after posting Vernal Equinox publicly... that was a bit of a mind trip). So, I've become a bit more cautious. I guess it's kind of a combination of two things - wanting to get it Right, and not wanting to look like a fool. xD
Anyway.
... I kind of want to make Paluszki. But I don't have the stuff for it. And I have homework things I need to do today. BLARRRRGH. Mmph, need to do moar homework and pick up some things and... uh... Yes.
*sigh* But I have no motivation to do anything right now! Oy, this is lame! Oh, well. Should go lock myself up in my office, or find a nice corner at the Roastery and make myself comfortable. It's pretty quiet during the daytime IIRC. And if I get a lot done today, I'll write some fanfiction after supper and then watch The Darjeeling Limited, 'cause the lighting in my bedroom is so bad that reading or writing is a no, but watching movies is fine~
I re-downloaded Google Earth. Should've done this earlier. It makes writing so much easier. I have a lot of trouble writing something if I can't picture the surroundings. This is why I prefer to write things set in Canada; if I can situate it in a place that I have been to, then I can picture it in my head, and make that picture come out on the paper. Ah, the ice on the Saskatchewan River, or the sagebrush dusting Drumheller's hills, or the jack pines and poplars of the northern forests~ But when I'm writing something completely unfamiliar, I just can't do it; I look in my mind and I don't see much of anything. Or - and this is almost worse - I superimpose a city I am familiar with onto an area that I am not familiar with. So in that case, you'll have a Toronto that looks like Edmonton, or a Tallinn that looks like Saskatoon.
... That last bit, that one, makes me feel very very silly indeed. Thank the gods that I DL'd GE and checked some details on Wikipedia before I wrote any outdoor scenes. Sure, the cities are about the same size in Area (Tallinn is only a tiny bit bigger) but the population is twice the size. That kind of boggles my mind. I guess everything is really packed together.
Also - Yuuago, you moron. Don't go on about rivers in a city that doesn't really have them. And who needs rivers, when the city is situated right on the Baltic Sea? *facepalm* Oyy, note to self, if you must use a Canadian city to get your mind in the right state, think Halifax. *sigh*
Anyway. Yes, I feel very silly indeed. But now that I have a way to orient myself it won't be so bad. *pause* I never used to be this picky. It's a recent thing. It's just, like - well, okay. Since I started writing for this fandom I've realized "Holy shit. Some of the people reading my stuff might actually be from these places." (Especially after posting Vernal Equinox publicly... that was a bit of a mind trip). So, I've become a bit more cautious. I guess it's kind of a combination of two things - wanting to get it Right, and not wanting to look like a fool. xD
Anyway.
... I kind of want to make Paluszki. But I don't have the stuff for it. And I have homework things I need to do today. BLARRRRGH. Mmph, need to do moar homework and pick up some things and... uh... Yes.
*sigh* But I have no motivation to do anything right now! Oy, this is lame! Oh, well. Should go lock myself up in my office, or find a nice corner at the Roastery and make myself comfortable. It's pretty quiet during the daytime IIRC. And if I get a lot done today, I'll write some fanfiction after supper and then watch The Darjeeling Limited, 'cause the lighting in my bedroom is so bad that reading or writing is a no, but watching movies is fine~
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.
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Date: 2009-02-20 01:41 am (UTC)... man, when I think of all the research I really need to do for things like Vladstuffs, I never want to write again. XD
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Date: 2009-02-20 01:44 am (UTC)(But I did finish a fic, so at least I did something productive! ... Well, no, not really). But that's what spring break is for, right? Pissing your time away and then making up for it on the Sunday before school starts up again? DON'T YOU DARE TELL ME I'M WRONG
Omfg. Yeah, if I was writing something like your Vlad story... Aiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeee. I'd never want to write. xD Luckily for me I'm not. The only side-effect of the research I've had to do so far is it makes me wish EVEN MORE that I was rich so I could go to all these places. ;~; Tallinn is so beautiful... Nnngh. I NEED MONEY. Must plant myself a money tree, mhm.