Friday 2 November 2007

Pic of the day: In the slice-of-life anime Minami-ke, stupid schoolgirl Kana goes into embarrassment overdrive when her sister reads the love letter Kana got from a classmate. I know that feeling, although I have never seen it expressed as intensely as Kana does here. I guess this is related to the English expression "making an ass of oneself", a phrase we don't have in Norwegian but which is still intuitively understandable. I mention this because I am going to do that now.

You don't have to read it

In the past, I have successfully compared amateur novels to haemorrhoids. We know that they exist and are not entirely uncommon, but most people would rather not hear about them day after day, much less see them unless it is their chosen career.

As such, I am not going to link every day to my novel, even though it is eating my month. I'm going to link to it today, and there is a link to several such novel beginnings at the bottom of my index page, http://chaosnode.net.

So here it is. You don't have to read it. Unfortunately for you, I have to write it. The power of my imagination compels me. ^^ It is a rough first draft blah blah. Now excuse me while I hide in a corner.

Oh, and in the anime following the sequence above, Kana's smarter sister convinces her that the love letter is actually a challenge to a fight. (Japanese is a very context-dependent language and especially the polite form is flowery and open to many interpretations.) Kana agrees to meet the boy alone, and then - using the element of surprise - beats him up.