The Sartre is an interesting idea—like the depressing version of A Matter of Life and Death (1946).
Interesting. I'd not heard of that film before. IIRC Les Jeux Sont Faits is reported to have actually been written in 1943, which sadly precludes interesting speculations about it being Sartre's response to the same.
... its glossary at the back of insulting and/or obscene Russian.
That does sound useful. In any event, I believe that honesty is always the best policy in these situations. I suppose maybe the Bowdlerising glosses in the Sartre book could have been intended to minimise objections from non-Francophone parents and administrators?
No matter what, I hope you make it; and if not, another novel, another year.
Thank you! I did make it, although I'm still finishing the story I was actually working on.
I couldn't think of anything to write that would go to novel length, so I decided to take two novellas that had fizzled on me and rewrite them from the beginnings in sequence. The first one ended up reaching 37,000 words. I got to 50,500 cumulative with the second one, and am currently at 54,000. I'm thinking it should work out for another 10,000 words or so, and I'm trying to keep on with something like the NaNo schedule, as it seems to be a more effective way for me to actually finish long stories.
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That's all to the good, I reckon.
The Sartre is an interesting idea—like the depressing version of A Matter of Life and Death (1946).
Interesting. I'd not heard of that film before. IIRC Les Jeux Sont Faits is reported to have actually been written in 1943, which sadly precludes interesting speculations about it being Sartre's response to the same.
... its glossary at the back of insulting and/or obscene Russian.
That does sound useful. In any event, I believe that honesty is always the best policy in these situations. I suppose maybe the Bowdlerising glosses in the Sartre book could have been intended to minimise objections from non-Francophone parents and administrators?
No matter what, I hope you make it; and if not, another novel, another year.
Thank you! I did make it, although I'm still finishing the story I was actually working on.
I couldn't think of anything to write that would go to novel length, so I decided to take two novellas that had fizzled on me and rewrite them from the beginnings in sequence. The first one ended up reaching 37,000 words. I got to 50,500 cumulative with the second one, and am currently at 54,000. I'm thinking it should work out for another 10,000 words or so, and I'm trying to keep on with something like the NaNo schedule, as it seems to be a more effective way for me to actually finish long stories.