I had an email from someone who enjoyed Heart of the Mirage this week. [Thanks A.B.] However, he pointed something out that I had not realised before.
He is dyslexic and had problems because quite a few of my proper nouns started with the letter 'S', which gave him a problem (Solad, Shiver Barrens, Stalwarts etc.). I am usually pretty careful about naming people with names that can be muddled up, e.g. it's not a good idea to use both Eric and Elric, or both Selena and Serena in the same story, but I had not realised that just having the same beginning letter for many unfamiliar names can cause a problem. in fact, I had not realised that in this trilogy at least I seem to have developed a passion for the letter 'S'!
I am going to be much more careful about this in the future.
About Me
- Glenda Larke
- Malaysia
- My life has been described by one of my editors as “impossibly exotic” – although really it is not my life, but me, that’s the exotic. I’m the uprooted plant, the exotic who doesn’t belong, always living in someone else’s backyard...
An Australian living in Malaysia. Writer, traveler, environmentalist. Author of The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted); The Mirage Makers trilogy (Heart of the Mirage, The Shadow of Tyr, Song of the Shiver Barrens) and, writing as Glenda Noramly, a stand-alone book Havenstar. The latest trilogy is called The Watergivers in Australia and the Stormlord trilogy elsewhere: THE LAST STORMLORD, STORMLORD RISING, STORMLORD'S EXILE
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Doesn't bother *me* (and I seem to be in the same boat, anyway, with the Worldweavers books with Thea, Terry, Tess, and now Tina... [grin])
But what I really wanted to say is, The Books Are Here (with all their S's!) and I look forward to reading them immensely! Thank you!
Enjoy!
Someone pointed out to me that in my ongoing five-year-old WIP I had far too many names starting with "M". Indeed, I did. What's more, when I investigated more closely, I recognised that I had a real resistance to inventing names that started with vowels. How weird's that? So now I keep an alphabetical list of names beside me and if I need to invent a new one I check for an appropriate underused initial letter and use that. A bit abitrary, but at least I have fewer M names.
I am doing something similar now Satima!
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