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truepenny56,400 words, and aside from all the people named ? and the matter of [trade agreement], that's the first half of The Goblin Emperor completed, with Chekhov's gun collection hanging over the mantel where it belongs.
That's the good news.
The even better news is that I know what happens in the second half of the book.
The word I am looking for here is w00t!
That's the good news.
The even better news is that I know what happens in the second half of the book.
The word I am looking for here is w00t!
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Date: 2009-10-23 06:22 pm (UTC)I suppose ? is better than XXX, which is what I use when I can get away with it (that being, in prose -- verse ... not so much).
---L.
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Date: 2009-10-23 06:53 pm (UTC)Ahem. I mean, that's great news.
P.
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Date: 2009-10-23 09:31 pm (UTC)W00T!
W))T! oops.
W00T!
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Date: 2009-10-23 11:26 pm (UTC)*runs through translater*
*ends up with 'Monette has a new book coming out*
W00T!!!!!
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Date: 2009-10-24 05:19 pm (UTC)? is a perfectly fine name. The problem is when more than one character has it. Then it's like roll call in grade school, and the seventeen unfortunates all named ? have to refer to each other as ? Anderson and ? Smith.
My method is to give my ?'s the names of Russian authors. Thus, a character in my WIP named ?Chekhov. Which makes reading your post at an upper-right to lower-left diagonal amusing to me.
In closing, WOOT WOOT WOOT! and congratulations!
~Megan