Sometimes you just have to give in

[wiseheart]

Originally, I planned to do a great deal of writing and crafting today, since I didn't have to cook. However, I had to realize that we didn't have enough milk and absolutely no cold cuts in the house, so I had to go food shopping in the morning, which meant that the morning was pretty much over after that. I did squeeze in a little bit of writing, just to keep up my picowrimo plan, but after lunch I just fell asleep over the crossword puzzle and slept nearly two hours.

It was fantastic! It even gave me enough energy to do the binding of Baby Book #1; if it's still in one piece tomorrow, I'll continue with #2. Since my cousin failed to phone us and tell us whether he's planning to show up today or tomorrow, I decided to shift through my notebooks and try to find a particular one where I've written down a scene from one of the Star Trek: Vanguard books - a scene I had planned to use as a template for my own scene for "A Stitch in Time", since I can't create technobabble for my life, not even in Hungarian, so I need some solid basis to figure out what all those... things on a starship or a space station are actually called. I was lucky: I found the notebook, and now I'm in the process to rewrite the whole scene, using only the technical terms, nothing else. I don't want a repetition of the AO3 trauma. *fingers crossed*

So, that was my day in a nutshell. The nice, long nap was overdue as I've slept barely 6 hours a night all week. I almost feel like a human being again.

Comments

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

Luckily I got stuck between a universe without technology and one where technology is a bad, bad thing which led to the death of mankind.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I don't actually mind technobabble, but if you're writing anything Star Trek-related, you need to be as exact as possible because some (male) fans out there can be really obsessed with such things. I guess it is because they never get the really important parts of a story, namely plot, characterization and personal interaction. *g*

[meathiel]

Yay for naps ...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Naps are a life-saver.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for a reinvigorating nap! You can't beat it.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Definitely not!

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Yay nap!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Hehehe... *g*

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

I read somewhere that Star Trek actors find the technobabble more difficult to remember than any other of their lines. It makes sense; the words have to be right, yet the words don’t actually have any real meaning.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Which makes all the more ridiculous how obsessed certain male fans can be with imaginary technology. The grief I've been given because I've made a mistake in that area — or at least they thought I'd made a mistake — is beyond reason, really. They never care about the important things in a story, like plot, characterisation, personal interaction or insider knowledge, but they get really mad about unimportant tech details, as if it were the real thing!

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

Hehe. Then they should read David Weber, or one of the Sci Fi authors that love their technobabble. Some of Weber’s fans helped him develop some logic/rationale for his sci fi technobabble, it is beyond boring! If I wanted to read about science, I would read actual science. I prefer reading history but among my non-fiction books are a couple of science for the layperson type books. Not some book of the justifications for technobabble!