Entry #671366, added on 10-11-09 @ 10:29 pm EDT
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So get this, yesterday I get a review on a middle chapter of Return To Manitou Island. The reviewer tells me, "Charmian (they spelled her name and various other things wrong, BTW) talks like a 21st-century person, she doesn't belong with these tribal people. How do you explain that?"
How do I explain that? I explained that by replying,
"Um...Charmian is a 21st-century person. That's why she talks like that."
This, friends, is why you don't step into the middle of a story and then demand of the author to know what's going on. Like, read the 110 chapters of Manitou Island, and the 36 chapters of RTMI that came before the one that caused such confusion, and that should explain plenty. Just looking at the folder summary of MI would have explained this much. BTW, didn't Charmian's decidedly modern name (amidst names like White Deer and Silver Eagle Feather) tip them off itself...?
They've been online since then and haven't replied to me. I could be jumping the gun posting this, but I imagine I'd feel silly too.
I have yet another cold. I wasn't even over the last one. I'm so tired of colds, and this other problem; it abated somewhat for a while and it was so wonderful feeling almost normal again but it returned last night, and feels like it will hit again tonight, it seems to prefer getting me when I'm trying to sleep. -_- I didn't write today, and I doubt I'll double up on it tomorrow, will likely just lie in the tub for an hour or so and then huddle in my room with The Oxford Book Of Dreams and miss out on writing. I tell myself that it's only temporary, I will get back to writing, and I owe myself some care time, but still, it makes me feel guilty.
I'm loaded up with pseudoephedrine (Gawd, this stuff dopes me out, I was totally stoned on it and diphenhydramine the other day, I think I actually lapsed into a trance) and guaifenesin and Pepto-Bismol (I think I'm swallowing a lot of air along with a lot of mucus, ugh, and I can't use Alka-Seltzer as it's a fluid) so I'd better go now, tar.
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