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Not necessarily. A clever author could devise a macro for their polysyllabic protagonist...
Ta, L.
I was just about to suggest that this was clearly a problem for a Word macro (or whatever word processor you use). I know I always create macros for the products I'm writing about. (I mean really, who wants to type out "Microsoft PowerShell" every single time. Much less "Windows Server 2016 Enterprise" or whatever. But that's the requirement, so clearly a task for a macro!)
The names, yes indeed! Just yesterday, reading in the later pages of Memory, homing in on the Vor names of the auditors, I stopped in wonder of how the creation of all the Vorkosigan Saga's names alone is a feat!
Haha..hahaha..."'Miles' is short." I read this yesterday, and just got it.
Glad to see that someone got the double meaning in my "Miles is short" comment. Welcome to GoodReads, Miss T.K.
Thank you, Jerri, for the welcome and for the "in" to comment again.
I wasn’t even online, when the statement "Miles is short" just arose in my brain; thus I instantly had to get here and share the giggles. Upon my posting about the double entendre, I looked up and was struck by “name people after obscure airplane parts,” which (dare I say) propelled me further into laughing.
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Not necessarily. A clever author could devise a macro for their polysyllabic protagonist...Ta, L.
I was just about to suggest that this was clearly a problem for a Word macro (or whatever word processor you use). I know I always create macros for the products I'm writing about. (I mean really, who wants to type out "Microsoft PowerShell" every single time. Much less "Windows Server 2016 Enterprise" or whatever. But that's the requirement, so clearly a task for a macro!)
The names, yes indeed! Just yesterday, reading in the later pages of Memory, homing in on the Vor names of the auditors, I stopped in wonder of how the creation of all the Vorkosigan Saga's names alone is a feat!
Haha..hahaha..."'Miles' is short." I read this yesterday, and just got it.
Glad to see that someone got the double meaning in my "Miles is short" comment. Welcome to GoodReads, Miss T.K.
Thank you, Jerri, for the welcome and for the "in" to comment again. I wasn’t even online, when the statement "Miles is short" just arose in my brain; thus I instantly had to get here and share the giggles. Upon my posting about the double entendre, I looked up and was struck by “name people after obscure airplane parts,” which (dare I say) propelled me further into laughing.
That seems like a great piece of advice that all beginning authors need.