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kittydesadeYour budget is 20,000 yen. You want to buy the items in the following chart (socks, skirt, jeans, handbag, jacket). Ask your partner, the salesperson, how much each item costs and decide whether you will buy it or not. (This is, I guess, where Google Shopping comes in handy.)
Ａ： すみません、 この ～は いくらですか。
Ｂ： ＿＿＿＿＿えんです。
Ａ： (buying) じゃ、 これを 下さい。
(not buying) そうですか。 じゃ、 また きます。
Ａ： すみません、 この靴下は いくらですか。
Ｂ： ななひゃくはちじゅう円です。
Ａ： じゃ、 これを下さい。
Ａ： すみません、 このスカートは いくらですか。
Ｂ： にせんごひゃくろくじゅうなな円です。
Ａ： そうですか。 じゃ、 また きます。
Ａ： すみません、 このジーンズは いくらですか。
Ｂ：
Ａ： じゃ、 これを下さい。
Ａ： すみません、 このハンドバッグは いくらですか。
Ｂ： よんせんにひゃくななじゅうはち円です。
Ａ： そうですか。 じゃ、 また きます。
Ａ： すみません、 このジャケットは いくらですか。
Ｂ： いちまんきゅうせんはっぴゃく円です。
Ａ： そうですか。 じゃ、 また きます。
Surprisingly, getting all the shit done today that I wanted to get done while I was at work was not as hard as I expected. This means the only thing I have to do this evening is sewing and writing, both of which I can live with. And doing bento. And then, hopefully, getting to bed on fucking time. Or even early. Guys, if I'm stupid enough to get embroiled in RP tonight, smack me?
I'm doing something fairly expensive but also fairly brave and ultimately productive, more of which will be revealed later. But I also really want to bounce about it, so you get cryptic until the deal is done. Suffice to say, living in Asheville and working at the family store has corrupted me to picking up a number of other crafty hobbies (this one, at least, requires less in the way of equipment I need myself and more that I can just borrow from the store) and it is really sad how into it I'm getting. But also kind of cool. This is a family business that's in semi-danger of dying out because I'm the only child who's come back to work at the family business, and we don't seem to have the money to help bring in others of the next generation. I'd like to. I know friends of mine would like to, but... it's frustrating. But this is a step. A really awesome step.
Today going smoother seems to have given me back a couple spoons. I almost want to use a different metaphor, now. Instead of spoons maybe hearts, or Life, or something. I feel like some kind of video game character running around through the day looking for mana potions or heart potions or something. If I were Link I'd be able to build up my heart containers. Which I might actually have been doing by way of CS. Maybe I started out with four heart containers and now I have six. Whatever the metaphor, I have more of it now. I feel a little better, a little less scattered and sleepy, and ready to actually finish out the day productively.
6. Where are you most comfortable writing? At what time of day? Computer or good ol' pen and paper?
7. Do you listen to music while you write? What kind? Are there any songs you like to relate/apply to your characters?
8. What's your favorite genre to write? To read?
9. How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them.
10. What are some really weird situations your characters have been in? Everything from serious canon scenes to meme questions counts!
11. Who is your favorite character to write? Least favorite?
12. In what story did you feel you did the best job of worldbuilding? Any side-notes on it you'd like to share?
13. What's your favorite culture to write, fictional or not?
14. How do you map out locations, if needed? Do you have any to show us?
15. Midway question! Tell us about a writer you admire, whether professional or not!
16. Do you write romantic relationships? How do you do with those, and how “far” are you willing to go in your writing? ;)
17. Favorite protagonist and why!
18. Favorite antagonist and why!
19. Favorite minor that decided to shove himself into the spotlight and why!
20. What are your favorite character interactions to write?
21. Do any of your characters have children? How well do you write them?
22. Tell us about one scene between your characters that you've never written or told anyone about before! Serious or not.
23. How long does it usually take you to complete an entire story—from planning to writing to posting (if you post your work)?
24. How willing are you to kill your characters if the plot so demands it? What's the most interesting way you've killed someone?
25. Do any of your characters have pets? Tell us about them.
26. Let's talk art! Do you draw your characters? Do others draw them? Pick one of your OCs and post your favorite picture of him!
27. Along similar lines, do appearances play a big role in your stories? Tell us about them, or if not, how you go about designing your characters.
28. Have you ever written a character with physical or mental disabilities? Describe them, and if there's nothing major to speak of, tell us a few smaller ones.
29. How often do you think about writing? Ever come across something IRL that reminds you of your story/characters?
30. Final question! Tag someone! And tell us what you like about that person as a writer and/or about one of his/her characters!
Two days' worth:
6. Where are you most comfortable writing? At what time of day? Computer or good ol' pen and paper?
Anywhere I can sprawl. I write on my back with my legs propped up against the wall, at my desk slumped down in the chair (yes, I know it gives me bad posture), on my stomach on the carpet, where ever. And I write at whatever time of the day I can. I try to start writing a couple hours after I wake up, so my brain has time to wake up, and stop a couple hours before I go to sleep so the wolves don't get me. Other than that, I'm very flexible. I can also write on computer or pen and paper, but since computers got way more portable and efficient at word processing I've gotten much, much lazier and prefer to write on computer. At least, full-length stories. Notes I'll take on anything that stands still with anything that leaves a mark.
Literally, sometimes. I have an OCD disorder called hypergraphia, and there have been times when I was nervous or upset more consistently than I am now when I would cover surfaces and scratch paper with lists, song lyrics, anything written down. It was a good time for jotting down notes that might make sense later, but not a very good time for my state of mid otherwise. I don't really consider that writing anymore, although I kind of did at the time.
7. Do you listen to music while you write? What kind? Are there any songs you like to relate/apply to your characters?
I tend to listen to movie soundtracks and scores when I write, because if I listen to song lyrics I wind up singing along and that plays hell with trying to focus on what I'm writing. I also listen to instrumental music, orchestral or folk or what have you, and I definitely relate music to mood or character. My Nameless half-Sluagh has a whole playlist of Last of the Mohicans tracks, folk fiddle music, some Western-style music, and some celtic airs. My amnesiac angel novel has most of the score from the original The Crow. I'm not sure what my desert novel playlist will end up being (although I expect I'd better solidify that as I buckle down on it) but I think it will end up having a lot of Firefly, Serenity, western film stuff (natch) and probably some flute music. I like to score my writing as though it were a film. I'm sure I'm not unique in this. :)