I sat on this question overnight but still don't know how to answer it without filling your journal with drivel when you don't even know me yet! It's a terribly long story having somewhat to do with my work (I was a student then, but I was already doing what I do now) and somewhat to do with a friend I had back then who was East German. It was totally life-changing, though. Looking back, I can see just how much it changed my thinking and affected my future.
I have more research to do on my own story, but it's now finally to the point where it's little bits that I can do along the way, you know? Not foundational stuff that I need to understand in order to plot it out. So yeah, I'm at the writing stage too. It's going slowly, but it's going, and it's finally taking shape. I'm betting I'll be done by the end of the summer.
Do you have a beta who can do a figure-skating-culture readthrough for you once you have a draft? It might be worth finding one. I'm definitely going to try to find a Russian (language and culture) beta for mine alongside my regular betas, but I'm not quite to the point of having to worry about it. :)
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Date: 2013-06-03 11:18 am (UTC)I sat on this question overnight but still don't know how to answer it without filling your journal with drivel when you don't even know me yet! It's a terribly long story having somewhat to do with my work (I was a student then, but I was already doing what I do now) and somewhat to do with a friend I had back then who was East German. It was totally life-changing, though. Looking back, I can see just how much it changed my thinking and affected my future.
I have more research to do on my own story, but it's now finally to the point where it's little bits that I can do along the way, you know? Not foundational stuff that I need to understand in order to plot it out. So yeah, I'm at the writing stage too. It's going slowly, but it's going, and it's finally taking shape. I'm betting I'll be done by the end of the summer.
Do you have a beta who can do a figure-skating-culture readthrough for you once you have a draft? It might be worth finding one. I'm definitely going to try to find a Russian (language and culture) beta for mine alongside my regular betas, but I'm not quite to the point of having to worry about it. :)
-J