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Friday, April 30, 2010

I won Script Frenzy : Vienna's Ghost

So that's it I'm officially a script frenzy winner as you can see here. Writing a script was a lot different than writing a novel, I'm glad I started this new challenge at the beginning of the month. I didn't write every day like I usually do for the novels. Probably because when I started to see how fast the page count was going up I had a little bit of overconfidence like my friend is explaining here. I wasn't the only one suffering from it I guess. Writing a script is still easier than a novel. Just next time I won't let 45 pages for the last 2 days. I think that's a bit over doing it.

If you are already familiar with my writing you will encounter in this script characters you already know, Brownie, Sahel, Viorel and Gideon from "Demon soul" and Kallisto and Seti from "Demon and fairy". I know I promised more of "Demon and fairy" and that will come really soon now that I'm done with the challenges. I'm also intending to finish the edition of "Demon soul" for my free print. I'll show you pictures when I'll get it.

Tips about writing :
1) If you don't know what to write add a vampire. I'm just half kidding here but Viorel tend to make the story funny and interesting... heu, don't use him ok, get your own vampire.
2) Repeat the same song while writing. No that's not boring !! Repeating seriously help to concentrate, ok, I'm kind of sick of that song too, I used it for like 15 hours in 2 days. But I can sing it all too :D
3) A script is not like a novel. I never had problem to finish the challenge and to get the word count write for the novel. But I did for the script. I finished the story with 93 pages. I was a bit annoyed. So I started editing a bit and adding more part (especially about the side characters that I know well) And that worked pretty well, proof is that I win.
4) Take a shower, yeah in the middle of the afternoon too, that will reset your creativity.

I was also working on a group script, but we couldn't manage to finish (over-confidence again?) Anyway I hope to have it finish sometimes and to put it on here for you to read as long as my writing partner are happy with that of course.

So here is the script in question "Vienna's Ghost", it's only partially edited so forgive the mistakes in it.


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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

미안하다, 사랑한다 (I'm Sorry, I Love You)

En français
미안하다, 사랑한다 is a Korean drama in 16 episodes from 2004. That's the first drama in the revenge genre, the second of the series is 이 죽일놈의 사랑. 

Cha Moo Hyuk was adopted by an Australian family when he was a baby. In the interview at the beginning of the series he seems to be the only one who doesn't want to take revenge on his parents for abandoning him thinking that they must have had a really good reason for it.
When his girl-friend gets married to a rich guy and he gets shot in the head he flew to Korea. The bullet can't be remove from his head changing slowly his personality. He discovers that his birth mother is in fact a famous actress  Oh Deul Hee. Seeing that she didn't have a good reason for abandoning him he will try to take revenge on her and her son Choi Yune. But he falls in love with Choi Yune's coordinator Song Eun Chae.

 Casting :

소지섭 as Cha Moo Hyuk 
임수정 as Song Eun Chae  (I'm a Cyborg, but it's Ok,  A Tale of Two Sisters)
정경호 as Choi Yune  
서지영 as Kang Min Joo 
최여진 as Moon Ji Young   (Love In Magic)
이혜영 as Oh Deul Hee
이영하 as Song Dae Chun (Sang Doo, Let's Go To School)
김혜옥 as Jang Hye Sook (Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si Do, My Little Bride)  
신구 as Min Hyun Suk (Natural City
Park Gun Tae as Kim Kal Ji (Don't Believe Her)

I really like this drama especially because there are several things unexpected. Also because the people are changing their initial plans. I also really like the music.
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    Monday, April 26, 2010

    Japan : Okonomiyaki

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    Last week-end we went to the restaurant to eat okonomiyaki. In this particular restaurant they bring you the ingredients already mixed and you cook your okonomiyaki yourself on a heating table. We were four at each table and at my table we decided that we will share all the okonomiyaki so that everybody could have a taste of everything. We ordered four okonomiyaki, that was too much and we were all full but not enough for the free desert ankogyoza.
    More about the okonomiyaki here.
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    Japan : 深大寺 and 神代植物公園

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    This week-end I went to the 深大寺 and 神代植物公園 with some friends. That wasn't the first time that I went to this temple. The first time was few weeks ago during the festival with my supervisor. I also went once or twice on my own but with the other that's a lot funnier. We first has delicious soba noodles at one of the temple restaurants. Then we walk around the temple and went to the botanic garden. That was my first time in the botanic garden. I think I will have to go back there when the roses are actually blooming. But the green house was interesting. I took to many picture of flowers.
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    For more about the day, see also my friend's blog.










    Friday, April 23, 2010

    Ireland : Peninsula

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    We took an other road trip on the peninsula on the south, and east of Belfast.

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    Ireland : The North Coast

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    We went for a ride in car to the North Coast. Yeah at the time we still had a car. We stop at different places including Ballycastle and Ballygalley.
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    Monday, April 19, 2010

    Ireland : Holywood

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    Holywood is a little city on the coast, in the north-east of Belfast.
    We went to spend on afternoon there and walk along the see. It was in March 2007, it was a bit windy but amazingly sunny.
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    Friday, April 16, 2010

    I finished RTK1

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    So that's it. After doing it, 3 times because I stayed stuck twice around 1400 kanjis and had to start again from the beginning again. After struggling with my kanjis stories never remembering them, never having them vivid enough. After finally deciding that it was just 2042, like a drop in the ocean compare to the 50000 hanjis in the biggest Chinese dictionary I know of. After deciding that is was going to be fun and easy and that there was no way around it... (I keep on telling people that everything is easy and that drive them crazy)

    Well that's it, yesterday I finished to learn my 2042 kanjis.

    I feel kind of relieved in a way. That's it. I know them. I just have to let anki decide when I need to review them to be sure not to forget them ever again.
    I'm also hyper excited. I never wanted to learn properly hiragana (review them) and katakana so badly.
    I want to learn how to say the kanjis out loud.
    I want to put hundreds of sentences in my SRS just cause I can.
    And I want more kanjis. I know that's sound crazy. People are always afraid of kanjis but I think that's because they learn it a such a painful way. Me, I have fun all the way. Even when I failed at it, it was really fun anyway and I just want more, and more and more. I also really like complicated ones. I like when people look at my kanjis papers -I have plenty everywhere in my room and in my office- and tell me this one is too complicated, I don't use this one, you don't need this one. I don't care a kanji is a kanji, I'll probably meet it somewhere crazy and then I will go : "See I needed it". I'm pretty much addicted to kanji learning. It's hard to think I won't add more to my SRS tonight.

    Anyway it's no time to rest. It's time to hurry and get some Japanese.

    Wednesday, April 14, 2010

    Ireland : Cavehill (Belfast)


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    I spend the last four years living in Belfast and I never wrote anything decent about Ireland. I'm not going to be complaining about the "horizontal rain" I had there in this post. I'm going to show you some pictures of Cavehill.
    It's a hill near Belfast where you can go when it's not raining (yes, yes sometimes you can get lucky). You arrive first near the Belfast castle, it's pretty easy to get in. Everybody can just get in. That really surprised me. You can go visit the garden and also hiking to the cave and to one of the peaks called Napoleon's nose due to the shape I suppose. From there you have a good view of the city.
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