At work last we week were subjected to an interminable two day “New Hire Workshop” despite having worked there for nearly three years. I learned all sorts of useful things like how to “ideate” and that I should be “training at the empowerment gym”. Hmm. Anyway, to pass the time I started writing a story about a disappearing unicorn in Chinese to practice my characters.
In the first chapter we meet the protagonists; their occupations are discussed; and a startling event occurs.
The second chapter concerns a fruitless exploration of places where the unicorn is not, and our heroes begin to despair.
In the final chapter a ghostly apparition provides a clue to the unicorn’s whereabouts and a happy conclusion is reached.
Feedback from friend Winni who is a Real Chinese Person ™ was that it was mostly intelligible with just a few nonsense sentences. I give myself a B+.
UPDATE: by popular demand I have created English translations of chapter 1, chapter 2, and chapter 3! The text in red is where the corresponding Chinese sentence was a bit of grammatical fail.
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this story looks most excellent, the pictures are delightful! did ghost escape from pacman?
will there be an english edition for those who cannot read the charactergrams?
June 2, 2015 @ 11:18 pm
Ghost’s back story is not elaborated on: it is left to the reader’s imagination!
I’ll see if I can produce an English version now there is popular demand. I fear it may lose some of its literary mystique in the process…
June 3, 2015 @ 8:20 am
English edition now available!
June 14, 2015 @ 9:30 pm
this is an amazing story! have you considered kickstarter to get a tiny book published? would totally buy yes yes
June 20, 2015 @ 10:37 pm