T-30 and counting

[truepenny]

3,186 words.

For once, that thing where you sleep on a problem actually worked. I woke up at 5:45 this morning (I think something in my dream woke me, because I thought it was the sound of a cat interfering with the wastebasket, and there was no such cat. A dream cat interfering with a dream wastebasket?) and couldn't get back to sleep. But I could get a start on the scene that was driving me nuts yesterday. I've been writing relatively steadily (for my values of "steadily," rather than, say, Bear's) ever since, and have now finished the scene.

Loud huzzahs.

Mean things: Everybody's worldview is now higgledy-piggledy.

Comments

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

It's two syllables (the final e is pronounced).

I've always pronounced it with the e's long--kee thee--but sitting here thinking about it this morning, I am suddenly suspicious that I may be wrong, and it's actually keh theh, which is how it's pronounced as part of the name of Phi-Kethetin.

So, um. I'm sure about the two syllables, but other than that apparently scholars disagree. :)

[smills47.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the pronunciation guide!

On the subject of names, here's a truth-emulates-fiction squib. Recently I came across a name in an article (British newspaper) that made me say Wait a minute -- surely that's a character in a Sarah Monette novel! But no, there really is a person named Darius Guppy.

[(Anonymous)]

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