Buy Me a Coffee at ko-fi.com

Sunday, December 13, 2009

NaNoWriMo, NaNoFiMo, part 21 of "Demon soul"

A lot of things happened recently from a writing point of view.
First I won NaNoWriMo officially, having written 58320words of fiction by the 20th of November.
Now I have to finish the story and to edit it to be able to have it for sell on amazon by June.

I left to Peru on the 21th of November (more about the travel in the travel section of the blog coming soon) for 18 days. But during that time, I still continue to work on the story to be able to give you something to read when I come back. I typed it all yesterday, I ws thinking roughly at 5000 words but I wrote in fact 6181 words, so almost 12 pages more for you to enjoy.

I also register to a second challenge called NaNoFiMo (National Novel Finishing Month).
The normal goal is to finish a draft (possibly your NaNoWriMo draft) by adding 30000 words to it by the 31th of December.
It's not as well organized as NaNoWriMo, it doesn't have that many goodies and interesting prizes to win but I think that still can be interesting.
All Novels Draft  


Enlarge this document in a new window

I don't know if I need that many words to finish the story, probably yes.
So here is my goal : finishing the story before the 23rd of December because that's the day when I'll be leaving for France and that I'm not sure how will be my computer access there.
I will give you day by day, as I did for NaNoWriMo, my word count of the day, the total word count and the word count for NaNoFiMo.
So here are the statistics :


6181 words written which bring the story to 64501 words.
The NaNoFiMo word count is obviously 6181 words.





Back to part 20
Forward to part 22
Back to the beginning

Thursday, December 3, 2009

베토벤 바이러스 Beethoven Virus

En français
베토벤 바이러스 (Beethoven Virus) is a Korean drama by 이재규 (Lee Jae Kyu) (2008) in 18 episodes.

Du Ru Mi a young violinist working for the Governor need to organize a concert for the creation of an orchestra. Unfortunately, all the founding get stolen and the professional musicians refuse to play for free.
She then decide to make a casting to get unprofessional musician to form the orchestra. She hire her landlady to be the cello player, a retired Oboe player from the Seoul orchestra, a trumpet player from a cabaret and a young cops named Kang Gun Woo, a music genius. They practice waiting for the conductor to arrive. But he is Kang Gun Woo Maestro, the orchestra killer, he never stay in an orchestra for more than 6 months and is well know to interrupt concerts if he estimate that the players are not good enough.

That drama is so funny and so exciting, I couldn't stop watching it and was watching several episodes in a row.
I really wish there was more of it. And of course, as it's all about music, the music is excellent.

Casting :

김명민 (Kim Myung Min) as Kang Gun Woo/Kang Mae
이지아 (Lee Ji Ah) as Du Ru Mi (태왕사신기 The Story of the First King's Four Gods)
장근석 (Jang Geun Seok) as Kang Gun Woo (One miss call final, 프라하의 연인, 쾌도 홍길동, 도 레 미 파 소 라 시 도)
이순재 (Lee Soon Jae) as Kim Gab Yong (이 죽일놈의 사랑)
현쥬니 (Hyun Jyu Ni) as Ha Yi Deun
송옥숙 (Song Ok Sook) as Jung Hee Yun (겨울연가, 전설의고향)
Cinema, Manga, Animation Content


Friday, November 27, 2009

가을동화 Autumn tales

En français
가을동화 is a Korean drama (2000) and first part of the KBS TV drama series Endless Love in 16 episodes. I already wrote a post on the second part 겨울연가.

When she is about 13 years old, Yoon Eun-suh has a road accident. At that moment her family realized that her blood group is different from her parents and that she has been exchanged at birth with Choi Shin Ae.
She is living in a rich family and his very close to her brother Yoon Joon-suh. Choi Shin Ae is at the contraly living with her mum and brother in a poor restaurant. When she realized that her real family is rich, she decide to go live with them but there is no more place for Eun-suh. The family leave for the US leaving her behind.
When he comes back about 10 years latter, Yoon Joon-suh meet Eun-suh again and fall in love with her.

This is a very sad story from the beginning until the end. Despite the nice casting, 송승헌 (He was cool), 송혜교 (풀하우스), I prefered 겨울연가 by far. I think the two main character were a bit called and I find it difficult to believe that the father thought abandonning the daughter he raised for 13 years to take the one that share his blood was the good decision to make.
But I really liked the beginning of the story and the music. Also, 원빈 was brilliant.
Cinema, Manga, Animation Content

Monday, November 23, 2009

吸血姫 美夕 Vampire Princess Miyu

En français
Vampire Princess Miyu is a Japanese horror manga series and anime by 垣野内 成美 (Narumi Kakinouchi) and 平野 俊貴 Toshiki Hirano. 垣野内 成美 is known for her anime work on for example Dr Slump, きまぐれオレンジ☆ロード (Kimagure orange road) or 魔法のスターマジカルエミ (Magical Emi, the Magic Star), 平野 俊貴 directed the well known エンジェル・ハート (Angel Heart)

In 1988 was released a serie of 4 OVA and in 1997 an other serie of 26 episodes.
They tell the story of a vampire girl, Miyu, looking to be about 15 years old but who is obviously much older.
She is also called the Guardian, her role is to protect the human being by sending the demon Shinma back to darkness. To help her she has obviously her surnatural powers, she can teleport and controle fire as well as a Eastern Shinma she befriend called ラヴァ (Larva) and a bunny shinma called 死無 (shiima) which mean undead and can see were a shinma attack will be hold.

The title is interesting because in Japanese, vampire is written like that 吸血鬼, here however the character
meaning demon is replaced by the character 姫 meaning princess.
Cinema, Manga, Animation Content