Masterful!

[louiselux]

*groan* I ate too much cheese. I know better than to stuff it down my face in those quantities but I still do.

In other news, my GO NaNoWriMo novel has passed 50,000 words. The past 4 weeks have been really hard, very exhausting, and at some points even quite upsetting. But at the end of it all I'm dead chuffed. I did it! Even though I've been posting it in space_angels it's not strictly fit for human consumption, or even finished, but I'm quite hopeful now that I'll write quite a bit more and then settle down to edit it into something cool and froody.

Along with my new copy of Good Omens (the old one fell apart, literally), I bought 'Master and Commander' by Patrick O'Brian. It's fabulous. I loved it right from the start, with that hugely entertaining description of what's going on in Aubrey's head at the concert and the way he's responding to the music. Reading with furrowed brow the insanely complicated nautical descriptions- I have no idea what's happening most of the time but it's worth it for terms like foretopgallantsail and cunt-splice! Now there's a term you don't see everyday.

Comments

[norah.livejournal.com]

There's a companion volume to the books called A Sea of Words that is great at explaining nautical terms and basic like points of sail...I'd never get through them without it, as a non-sailor.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Thank for that. I really am totally baffled by most of the nautical words and am hoping that as I read more I'll pick it up. There's a little helpful diagram of a ship at the front with the names of all the bits of the boat so I'm trusting that that will help.