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[kittydesade]

Ответьте на вопросы.
1. Сегодня идёт дождь или снег? Нет. Я думаю, сегодня светит солнце.
2. Вчера шёл дождь или снег? Нет. Вчера не шёл дождь.
3. Вы думаете, что завтра будет идти дождь или снег? Я думаю, завтра будет идти дождь.
4. Что вы любите делать, когда идёт дождь? Когда идёт дождь, я люблю читать книгу.
5. Что вы любите делать, когда идёт снег? Когда идёт снег, я люблю по?гулять в парке, кататься на санках или cделать снежный человек снеговик.

кататься на санках – go sledding
cделать снежный человек – make a snowman yeti. Possibly this will be useful if I ever have to paint a yeti again. Checking the mini painting comm will tell me.
cделать снеговик - make a snowman

That was… surprisingly easy. This worries me a bit. Hmm.

Feelings! Dative subjectless construction.

To indicate how a person feels (e.g. hot, cool, interested, bored, happy) use the dative case of the person plus the adverbial form of the complement.

Кому холодно - Who feels cold
Мне прохладно – I feel cool
Тебе тепло – You feel warm
Ему жарко – He feels hot
Ей хорошо – She feels good/healthy
Нам плохо – We feel bad/sick
Вам скучно – You feel bored
Им интересно – They feel interested
Нашему соседу весело – His neighbor feels happy ( in the sense of having a good time)
Нашей соседке грустно – Her neighbor feels sad.
Нашим друзьям легко - Our friends feel easy (as in, have it easy. I'm trying to come up with an English equivalent that follows the form but I don't think their is one. Which makes it doubly useful!)
(трудно – difficult)

I have no idea what easy or difficult translates to as far as feelings or context. Bzuh. To talk about how someone felt or will feel, use the past or future tense of the verb быть conjugated for third gender.

Change these sentences to subjectless expressions.
Образец: Я думаю, что холодно. Мне холодно.

1. Мария Ивановна думает, что здесь тепло. Ей тепло.
2. Наши соседи Алла и Олег думают, что в Национальном музее интересно. Им интересно/Нашим соседам интересно.
3. Виталий думает, что эту книгу трудно будет читать. Ему было будет трудно. I can read tenses no really I can shaddup. >.>
4. Мы думаем, что эту книгу легко читать. Нам легко.
5. Мы думаем, что это грустно. Нам грустно.


Here's one you haven't seen in a while: Me (Me) and Sam (Also Me)

Me, coming out of the shower: Wow, that only took...
Sam: Ten minutes, yep.
Me: ... so, I just... got up. Stretched, ran, showered, washed my face...
Sam: In an hour, yep. See what happens when you don't get distracted, when you go through all your routine cleanly and efficiently?
Me: ...?
Sam: *baps* You stretch in five, you feed the cats in five, you leave five minutes early. You come back, hop straight into the shower, it takes you ten minutes instead of fifteen.
Me: Oohhhhhhh.
Sam: Duh. Now, do it again, for eight weeks.
Me: Crap.
Sam: *laughs at me*

I get no respect even from myself. I swear.

So, I have this novel. And it's about an angel who doesn't know he's an angel, whose life started about five or six years ago, who has a couple of girlfriends (poly, not cheating) and who has managed to, unbeknownst to anyone in the book until towards the end, knock up one of them. The other one is possessed by a demon who's trying to get him. I forget why, but I'm sure I wrote in a good reason, I remember the outline was pretty tight. Recurring motifs involve mirrors, wings, shadows, and headaches. Sort of. Shadow and darkness, both of light and the kind that happens when you pass out. Main characters are the angel and his two girlfriends. Side characters are another angel who's kind of investigating the human angel (I'm getting tired of typing out amnesiac angel) to see if he's redeemable back to heaven or if he's a lost cause, and the demon who's possessing one of the girlfriends to corrupt the angel. And the possessed girlfriend's girlfriend (see: poly).

The only problem is, this is for novelbigbang and they need a title by the end of the month. And, seriously? I suck at titling things. HELP ME, F-LIST. I also should probably come up with a book blurb and a real two-page-ish plot synopsis for query purposes, plus a synopsis of whatever length they want for the comm, but that can come later. And that, sometimes at least, is easier.

Poll #3589 Title my novel!

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What should I title this novel?

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The Amnesiac Angel
1 (50.0%)

Mad Angel Blues
0 (0.0%)

Broken Angel/One-Winged Angel
0 (0.0%)

The Unfallen
0 (0.0%)

Shadow Wing
1 (50.0%)

Shatter
0 (0.0%)

A Tidings of Wings (this is not a typo, tidings is a collective noun, somehow)
0 (0.0%)

Splinter Reflection
0 (0.0%)

Splinter Eye
0 (0.0%)

Something less lame, which I will suggest in comments!
0 (0.0%)

I am so awesome that, would you believe it, I'm almost ready to go by now. I just need to put my chip case (CHIP CASE) and my bento (BENTO) in my pack, grab my sunglasses and iSis and things and go. Which. My iSis is trying to give me a heart attack. I have a flip-closed iPod case, and it was closed, and I wasn't touching it, and it was off, I know because I turned it off when I got in from walkies/running this morning, and it spontaneously turned on. For no apparent reason. What the hell, are there demons about, and if so, why didn't the TV flicker on? What the fuck, iSis?

Anyway. In conclusion, I am awesome, and this better be the start of a fucking fantastic day. Or at least, a day of me being awesome. Like, strangely, the past two days have been. Exhausted, but still Michael Bay.

Comments

[nope]

The Shadow of His Wings

[kittydesade]

... Ooh. That has poetry to it. *puts it on the short list*

[lireavue]

*pokes head out over here* Really I recommend anything that isn't TOTALLY obvious about the angel thing. Remembering wizard's first rule, of course. *wry*

[kittydesade]

*snort* So, nothing that explicitly has 'angel' in the title? Because with as much damn bird imagery as is in the novel already, no one's going to believe it until the word 'angel' actually starts showing up.

[lireavue]

*pokes your list* Yes, though I do like Mad Angel Blues for some reason. (You could always set it in the South. Actually, you might want to be a little clearer about your setting in general; I can't really tell what region you're aiming for. /random beta comment)

Out of the ones you've got listed here, Nope's suggestion, plus the one I voted for, Mad Angel Blues, and Splinter Reflection, for some reason, all grab me as potentials.

(Now you get to figure out what those have in common and pick something! >.>)

[kittydesade]

Dude, I don't even know what I'm aiming for. Something to put in the outline notes, I guess, with the whole Martine and sympathetic thing and then figure it out once I've got a draft copy.

(Also!! God, I should link you to their arbitrary-ass rules for turning in a rough draft or being disqualified from the big bang. Apart from having to have 85% of it done, which I can see, it doesn't specify whether plotwise or words-wise, you have to have your finished word count estimated WITHIN 500 WORDS, you have to have your final title, and... I think that was it for ridiculous demands, but COME ON.)

Hey, that's four or so more likely titles than the one I had, which was one craptastic title! :D

[lireavue]

Region is good! I keep trying to avoid seeing the Beloit campus when you write about Joss at school. :P But yes.

(OH MY GOD YOU ARE SHITTING ME. 500 words? Nobody estimates that closely! It's pretty much impossible even if you're a professional writer who's been doing this for years! Changes happen! What the hell! *turns the Dennis !s off* Final title and required amount of writing makes sense but that's just STUPID. Have you asked for clarification about the 85% thing?)

Indeed! Also, if you're planning on publishing this on Lulu or Amazon or wherever, remember that their anal-retentive bullshit really doesn't apply to that and they can take a flying leap. What you write for them so doesn't have to be what you put out for buying.

[kittydesade]

XD I definitely need to narrow that down, but that's something for editing, with this looming deadline.

Right. Clarification asked for. Knives and machetes hidden behind back in case smiting is not needed.

*snorts* Well. Yes. There is definitely that. Although if the cover art turns out really nifty I may ask the artist for permission to use it. >.> *is not cheating and using big bangs as an excuse to get cover art, really*