How to publish a book...

• karo: the joys 
  July 17, 2010, 10:45:59 PM
• karo: I've been busy doing this Summer School for Access to Uni thing.  For the past week or two I have had at least one big essay per week(by big I mean 1500 words, so not massive but still a fair bit for a weekly essay) got one due Monday this week and another due Friday
  July 17, 2010, 10:45:46 PM
• E.Maree: That must have taken some organisation, wow. :O Mega congratulations!
  July 15, 2010, 09:24:08 PM
• Triss: We're hoping to make it an annual event since the first was pretty successful.
  July 02, 2010, 05:56:40 PM
• Triss: A group of us from the LARP society I'm part of decided to put on a role-playing convention, catering to roleplayers of all types from tabletop to LARP, so we got in a whole load of traders and people promoting their groups and stuff. There's quite a big, active RP community in the north-east, so we thought we'd tap into that. So 'Nerd East' was born!
  July 02, 2010, 05:56:13 PM
• E.Maree: Running a convention? Oooh, tell me more! :O
  June 27, 2010, 11:34:45 AM
• Triss: 'lo guys - I'm good, still busy, alternating between a degree and convention running. I didn't predict anything of this sort this time last year...
  June 25, 2010, 11:17:06 PM
• E.Maree: I think everyone's lives have taken a turn for the busier lately, I know mine has. xD How are you?
  June 22, 2010, 09:55:21 PM
• MysticSafewayBag: I have not been on here for a long time but I am very busy. It is my bastard degree; it takes up almost all of my time.
  June 16, 2010, 11:00:12 PM
• MysticSafewayBag: Hello.
  June 16, 2010, 10:59:49 PM
• E.Maree: Tightened up the anti-spam measures on the forum.
  May 31, 2010, 01:47:46 PM
• karo: we need to spark up activity again... hardly anyone comes on anymore...
  April 30, 2010, 01:40:19 PM
• E.Maree: Hi XGIANNIX, how are you?
  April 26, 2010, 09:27:37 PM
• XGIANNIX: E.Maree
  April 20, 2010, 01:34:32 PM
• XGIANNIX: euhmm hello
  April 20, 2010, 01:32:18 PM
• E.Maree: The new forum domain is now live, please change your bookmarks to emmamaree.com/forum.
  April 13, 2010, 11:42:03 AM
• E.Maree: I made a logo!
  April 06, 2010, 12:48:12 PM
• E.Maree: http://emmamaree.com/ is well along its way now. I'll have to move this place over soon. :O
  March 21, 2010, 10:38:08 PM
• E.Maree: Oh man, it's so cold around here, even with the snow gone. 
  January 22, 2010, 08:31:36 AM
• karo: thank you
  January 18, 2010, 05:43:17 PM

[kitty girl]

wow, that was really helpful. i watched how JKrowiling published her final book but that bit of the show was only on for five minetes before it went onto something else. thanks

[E.Maree]

wow, that was really helpful. i watched how JKrowiling published her final book but that bit of the show was only on for five minutes before it went onto something else. thanks

Glad you liked it. Been considering doing more random info stuff on getting published, especially now I'm working with an agent and an editor. Been considering doing it podcast format, actually, but I hate my voice recorded so that probably wouldn't work. xD

[kitty girl]

wow, that was really helpful. i watched how JKrowiling published her final book but that bit of the show was only on for five minutes before it went onto something else. thanks

Glad you liked it. Been considering doing more random info stuff on getting published, especially now I'm working with an agent and an editor. Been considering doing it podcast format, actually, but I hate my voice recorded so that probably wouldn't work. xD

i'm the same with singing, give me a kareoke backing track from and english song and i hate my voice. if i sing in japanesse thought i quite like my voice. T.T but some how i dont think theres much bisness in the english marcket for a uk jpops singer

[MysticSafewayBag]

i'm the same with singing, give me a kareoke backing track from and english song and i hate my voice. if i sing in japanesse thought i quite like my voice. T.T but some how i dont think theres much bisness in the english marcket for a uk jpops singer

You can sing in Japanese...

[E.Maree]

Interesting, I've never tried singing J-Pop. =O

MSB - from my experience, singing J-Pop doesn't really require knowledge of the language, as most TV openings have the Japanese lyrics shown in a karaoke-style, or you can look up lyrics online. It's pretty easy to sing them once you grasp the pronunciation, though I suppose native Japanese speakers might find it a bit inaccurate.

Kitty Girl might know it natively, though. =O Which would be impresive, 'cos it's tricky to learn up here with the lack of Japanese or ESL-teaching courses.

[kitty girl]

Interesting, I've never tried singing J-Pop. =O

MSB - from my experience, singing J-Pop doesn't really require knowledge of the language, as most TV openings have the Japanese lyrics shown in a karaoke-style, or you can look up lyrics online. It's pretty easy to sing them once you grasp the pronunciation, though I suppose native Japanese speakers might find it a bit inaccurate.

Kitty Girl might know it natively, though. =O Which would be impresive, 'cos it's tricky to learn up here with the lack of Japanese or ESL-teaching courses.

actually thats what i do, i read the subs you get. ^^ its quite funny really. i'm really into Japanese stuff and i can talk a bit of Japanese. i would like a kimono or a Yukata ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukata ) at some point. whats even funnier is that none of it is native to me

[karo]

I can speak the tiniest most minute amount of Japanese possible(because of Karate).

[E.Maree]

I never got any Japanese out of Karate except the basic numbers, can't remember any of the Japanese used for the moves. But yeah, I used to know a lot of it through Japanese subtitles in anime,  manga, all the usual stuff, but I've let my grasp on it slip, partly because I don't see much use in picking up fractured pieces like that.

I've always been tempted to go to Japan to teach English, though. Stressful stuff, and the Japanese often treat the gaijin like dirt, and I'd have to take a good course to be fluent enough to hold me own there, but I'd still love to it. I'll definitely be going there some day.

Kimonos are beautiful. <3 I prefer Harijuku and Shinjuku (I am probably spelling half of this wrong, by mind's wandering) style. Ganguro looks awful, though. xD

[kitty girl]

I never got any Japanese out of Karate except the basic numbers, can't remember any of the Japanese used for the moves. But yeah, I used to know a lot of it through Japanese subtitles in anime,  manga, all the usual stuff, but I've let my grasp on it slip, partly because I don't see much use in picking up fractured pieces like that.

I've always been tempted to go to Japan to teach English, though. Stressful stuff, and the Japanese often treat the gaijin like dirt, and I'd have to take a good course to be fluent enough to hold me own there, but I'd still love to it. I'll definitely be going there some day.

Kimonos are beautiful. <3 I prefer Harijuku and Shinjuku (I am probably spelling half of this wrong, by mind's wandering) style. Ganguro looks awful, though. xD

>.< can i just quick; say that i was wrong about me singing In Japanese.i just rove to myself that i can only sing one song in Japanese T.T typical.

back to the topic i totally agree about kimonos. also, since I'm more into the design of fashion and not the clothes, i really think its a matter of opinion about ganguro. i myself think of it slightly anther form of cosplay.

gotta luv the Lolita fashion over there and as well as the sailor uniform.

[MysticSafewayBag]

gotta luv the Lolita fashion over there and as well as the sailor uniform.

Forgive me, but a voice in my head is going "paedophiliapaedophiliapaedophilia". Someone explain? 

What's 'lolita' other than a novel by Vladimir Nabokov?

[E.Maree]

gotta luv the Lolita fashion over there and as well as the sailor uniform.

Forgive me, but a voice in my head is going "paedophiliapaedophiliapaedophilia". Someone explain? 

What's 'lolita' other than a novel by Vladimir Nabokov?

You're correct, actually. xD It's a fashion style of Victorian-gothic clothing based on Victorian children's clothes, meant to make the wearer look childlike. The Wikipedia article seems to avoid mentioning it, but 'loli' is prety big in Japanese culture. As far as I'm aware, a lot of Japanese pr0n tries to make the pictured seem as young as possible, and there's a lot of it focussing on school uniforms (sailor outfits) that backs that up.

It's popular outside of the fetishist context, though, and is a highly popular and beautiful fashion trend.

[karo]

I never got any Japanese out of Karate except the basic numbers, can't remember any of the Japanese used for the moves. But yeah, I used to know a lot of it through Japanese subtitles in anime,  manga, all the usual stuff, but I've let my grasp on it slip, partly because I don't see much use in picking up fractured pieces like that.

I've always been tempted to go to Japan to teach English, though. Stressful stuff, and the Japanese often treat the gaijin like dirt, and I'd have to take a good course to be fluent enough to hold me own there, but I'd still love to it. I'll definitely be going there some day.

Kimonos are beautiful. <3 I prefer Harijuku and Shinjuku (I am probably spelling half of this wrong, by mind's wandering) style. Ganguro looks awful, though. xD

Won't spell this right I will spell it the way you say it.

Unless I am completly wrong

Itchi = 1
nee = 2
san = 3
she = 4
go = 5
row = 6
seetch = 7
hatch = 8
coob = 9
joo = 10

Jo (dan) = head (height)
Tue (dan) = stomach (height)
Gay (dan) = groin (height)

Geri = kick
mi = forward
mawashi = round house
oshiro = reverse
yoko = side

oora = opposite
mawatae = turn
Yoi = ready
Yamae = relax
Shenzai = normal stanse(like when you stand up normally)
rei = respect

Sensei = someone who is further along the way 2 enlightenment (someone who has more experiance than you).e.g. teacher, policeman, mother, father.

kata = fighting form
kihon = basic
kumitae = sparring

karate do = open/Chinese handed combat(I think it is combat anyway I lost my Japanese dictionary(yes I actually have one))

ucke = block
zuki = punch

Zenkutso = line

Hikatae = pull back

that is all I can think of right now.  There is more words I know but I can't think which ones I missed right now lol.

[Triss]

Not sure about the karate terms, but the numbers are ichi, ni, san, shi, go, roku, shichi, hachi, kyuu, jyuu.

I like the gothic lolita fashion too - a couple of my friends are really into it and dress in it quite often.

[karo]

I was close with kyuu

I wrote coob.  Which is close considering I was writing how you say it not how it is spelt.

[kitty girl]

i think what you wrought for karate was right. ^^

as for the lolita, the reson for the picture takeing is becase outside of japan its all do do with the sex indusry. quite sick actlly. *reminds self of acidenlty 1st intack of p*** * -.- all i wanted was a dress patten -.-