So far today

[maderr]

Have managed to write roughly 3000 words of my contest story. Want to reach a certain point today, then will either switch back to H&G for Sky or succumb to temptation and watch ep four of Kyou Kara Maou, which is vastly amusing if not the anime of century.

Need a good russian name for a horse. My family is officially moving out of the old house today so I can't reach my sister. Hmm...

And the men are just about finished installing the screen door in Sarah's room so soo we will have fresh air! in the basement. w00t!

Comments

[maderr.livejournal.com]

dude, I'm not naming the poor horse "orange," "blue" or "umbrella." I might in other circumstances but not here. C'mon, your a noble tsarewhatits tracking a gold & silver bird with a penchant for stealing apples. What would you name your horse?

[rykaine.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I couldn't remember what words I'd given you. YOu're right; none of those will work.

And it's a noble Tsarevich. Ok, let me think. I don't have my dictionary with me, so this'll take a while...

Any idea what you want? hmm... ...

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Tsarevich, right. Prince, right? I am Ivan Son of Tsar.

Not really, anything works. Maybe I should just call it Misha, like that poor rat on that submarine movie that was really cool. And b/c, you know, I can't write anything involving Russian folklore without calling someone Misha.

Remind me what the dim for Boris is?

[rykaine.livejournal.com]

Boris = Borya

umm...? Rasvet'? (=dawn/sunrise)

Mom says name it Romanov (for humors sake, I hope you get that).

Veter? [Vey teyr] (=wind)

Loshat' (=horse)

Mika [mee kah] (=a/n)

Dude, I don't really know? It doesn't help I'm drawing a complete blank on my hard(ly)-(l)earned vocabulary... Sorry.

Do you need it like soon?

[maderr.livejournal.com]

ahahahaha - "Romanov, have a carrot boy. That's my good romanov" aahahahahahahaha. I am way too easily amused by my own head.

Veter is actually perfect. Thank you. And now that I think about it, this story has two horses. I'll use Mika for the other one.

Excellent, you've been most helpful. I think I'll send you what I have so far, once I add some names (I didn't think the brothers had names, but they give them names right at the end of the story so I figured I'd better toss them in).

[rykaine.livejournal.com]

Dude,the version I have gives them names right from the start. Like Dmitri and I forget who the other was, but meh... whatever you want is fine. I could never look at Dmitri as being bad--not with Grave dancing around my head. haha

[maderr.livejournal.com]

is that a print or online version? If it's online, hook me up - I don't think mine is the best around but I'm too lazy to find another one (I'm also totally rewriting it anyway so it doesn't really matter).

I have them as Dmitri and Vasili (my vers has "y" at the end of each name, but I don't like them so they're just "i" now).

[rykaine.livejournal.com]

My version a print version. I intend to send you the book it's in, and the book with the other firebird story. BJ gave me permission to send both to you.

I scour the net, and see if I can't find a better verion, but really, in the end they're all the same--yours should be fine.

And 'i' is a more phonetically proper ending for Vasilli. The why is just so it looks 'phonetically accurate' to the English mind. And note: sometimes it's spelled with 2 'l's, sometimes 1. It's your call. My preference is the 2--like the final 'i', I just think it looks better. (Just FYI).

[maderr.livejournal.com]

yeah, don't bother looking. not worth the time

Hmm...I like your two l spelling better. I shall go witht that.