Comments on: Virus-y

By: Stefanie

Stefanie — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:25:46 +0000

Loved Mists of Avalon! Hope you are feeling better!

By: Courtney

Courtney — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:09:51 +0000

Dorothy – I think you would definitely fall into the Mists of Avalon, it’s something that sucks even the most disbelieving reader in…
LK – LOL – I know what you mean – it is funny when in print…
Yogamum – I still don’t know what to rename Ryan. I think his original name was Rick, so I may go back to that…
Charlotte – yoga did part of the trick…sleep did the rest…
Kerryn, unfortunatly, the parents aren’t cutetsy at all, and the name MUST be changed…
Nova – I will NEVER be able to imagine Morgaine as anything but kind, ever again, even though my first impressions of her were as evil. This is such a stunning book, while it does peek my interest to read further into these tales i do wonder if I’ll ever be able to accept another’s viewpoint…
Cam, you could NEVER step on toes, ever. For now I’ve decided to leave the names the same because I do think they fit…I will address the rhyming at a later date!

By: Cam

Cam — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 04:01:12 +0000

Sorry to hear you are under the weather and hope you are feeling better soon. Maybe making the baseball game interesting is so difficult because kid’s ball games are rarely interesting in themselves. Maybe others won’t agree with me, but having sat through too many little league games (admittedly, 2 might have been too many for me…), it seems to me that the game isn’t as interesting as much as everything surrounding it that is: the parents on the sidelines (those that are too involved in the game as well as the conversations with those totally uninvolved who look up occasionally to cheer on a kid), the younger siblings running around nearby trying to act like their older brothers, the kid in the outfield, more interested in the airplanes overhead or the bugs in the grass, who looks up suddenly and sees the pop fly heading right towards him and he is totally unprepared. If it is a pickup game rather than an organized team game, it is still the kids and their interactions rather than their skill that would make the game most interesting. Maybe Brian and Ryan isn’t so bad if these names are really suited to the characters — lots of parents give their kids cheesy names without noticing it. But in my neck of the woods, Brian and Ryan don’t really rhyme (Bri-on and Ry-in) Hope I’m not stepping on toes with my unsolicited free advice. If it doesn’t work for you, well, consider it worth the cost — nothing! Best of luck working out things in your novel — I’m sure it will all come together in the end!

By: nova

nova — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:52:54 +0000

Yes, poor Ryan! But I understand your reasoning. Brian must stay Brian, after all.

As for the Mists of Avalon, I remember finding that book on my mother’s shelves when I was a kid, ten or so. It was the first I’d read of anything relating to Arthurian legends, so when I read the actual ones years later I was so disappointed! Why would Morgan Le Fay (Morgaine in the book, right?) be seen as evil? I hated Arthur, what a coward. The Mists of Avalon became the real myth for me, since it colored everything I read after. Even knowing it was fiction, it was hard to let go. I guess that sounds sort of distorted. I’m stubborn that way when it comes to books.

p.s. Hope you feel better.

By: Kerryn

Kerryn — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:24:26 +0000

I hope that the weekend, the yoga and whatever you chose to drink have kicked that virus-y feeling because you don’t know how much I am anticipating a week’s worth of posts on marriage.

Poor Ryan. Although… you could leave his name as it is. Are the parents the type of people who’d do that to their child?

By: charlotteotter

charlotteotter — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:11:16 +0000

Hope the weekend gives you a chance to feel better and that the yoga does the trick. I always enjoy your posts, long or short, on any topic, but I am especially looking forward to next week’s posts …

By: yogamum

yogamum — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:55:20 +0000

Yoga has gotten rid of oncoming colds for me many times over the years. Hope you feel better!!

I’m amused by your writing dilemmas. The things we have to figure out when writing!

By: LK

LK — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:06:49 +0000

Hope you feel better. I got a kick out of your “Ryan/Brian” dilemma. I mean, reading about it. Not enjoying your dilemma. You get what I mean.

By: Dorothy W.

Dorothy W. — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:37:17 +0000

Do feel better soon! I don’t have that “falling into a book” experience often enough, I think. I should seek out more books that would really suck me in.