i has a werk + ritins

[cimorene]

Okay, maybe I should try reverse psychology on myself. Like instead of saying, "Uh-oh, I hope this doesn't turn out twice as long as it is now in the end" or "I'll have to work on cutting the plot down so that I can finish this section in a few thousand words," I should be like, "Well, ten thousand more words of this should do it!" For example. Maybe that would work. It's not the length per se that I object to, it's more the time investment. I could have written quite a few more stories of more sane fandom-appropriate modest length in the several weeks and 14,000 words I have spent on this last piece. (I knew I was going to regret switching POVs! That always makes the fucking thing longer! But - it was funny. :/)

And yesterday I started translating an Excel document, just adding a third column of translations, right, when the plugin wouldn't work to open it in Trados and edit the tags. Only our technical manager sent me a bilingual file and when I opened it I discovered it's actually got about ten times as many tags to translate as I thought. Goodbye, today. (But hello muneez?)