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Post by torainfor on May 7, 2008 8:21:46 GMT -5
If my lead character is on another planet inhabited by humans, and they're crossing a vast desert, and their mode of transportation is a catamaran consisting of giant snakes for pontoons and a pterodactyl for a sail ('cus then, when they sail off a cliff, he can just glide them down), does that automatically put me in the young adults genre?
Another question: why do I seem to be so obsessed with pterodactyls lately?
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Post by Jeff Gerke on May 7, 2008 9:26:39 GMT -5
I can't answer your last question, 2rain4, but I'd have to say no to your first one.
Now, your book may BE a YA title, but I don't think that just having an odd transportation system would automatically make it so.
Jeff
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Post by strangewind on May 8, 2008 16:53:14 GMT -5
I think it automatically puts you into the Flintstones genre.
I want a snake-a-maran!
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Post by Spokane Flyboy on May 17, 2008 16:40:23 GMT -5
You're not obsessed yet. You're obsessed when you want to, like one of my friends, name your children Pterodactyl and Triceratops. Oddly enough, his wife hasn't bared him any children yet. Hehe.
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Post by Jeff Gerke on May 19, 2008 7:44:00 GMT -5
That's hysterical, Spokane.
Jeff
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Post by korora on May 19, 2008 10:00:06 GMT -5
Are you serious, Spokane?
Eudyptula albosignata
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Post by Spokane Flyboy on May 19, 2008 14:27:27 GMT -5
I'm not so sure how serious my friend is about it, but that's what he always says he wants to name his children.
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Post by torainfor on May 19, 2008 19:09:05 GMT -5
I had forgotten the previous replies and, for a moment, thought your friend wanted to name his child "Snake-a-maran."
A college friend of my husband's insists if they ever have kids (unlikely) the boy will be Dante Xavier. My mom threatened to name my brother Cud Bud Tisdale. It wasn't until just a few years ago I discovered that's a real family name. Ooooh, maybe I should use that as my writing alias!
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Post by Jeff Gerke on May 20, 2008 7:34:09 GMT -5
In my various fiction exploits I have had the opportunity to use some pet names I always wanted to use.
The hero's cat in my Ethan Hamilton books was named Wysiwyg (after our own real cat, now deceased).
And in another novel I worked on I was able to give the hero a dog, a lazy old bassett hound, and call him Teotwawki (tay-o-twahk-ee). It's an acronym from the beloved Y2K scare of a few years back. It stands for "the end of the world as we know it." I loved the idea of a sleepy hound dog having a name of this unstoppable destructive force.
Jeff
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Post by Spokane Flyboy on May 20, 2008 10:27:51 GMT -5
Heh. WYSIWYG fits a cat quite well.
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