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Christina
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May 26, 2015 12:07PM
Guys, the suggestion I made was a prompt. A prompt for you to start another thread. Please start a new thread.
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I did, but trying to stop a thread hijacking by excited Goodreads posters is exceptionally hard. I do not envy you Mods. Thanks for the great work btw.
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Okay, I will allow that Kaffee in if it is the future, but I draw the line at Space Camels!
C.B. wrote: "I don't like it when people make up their own word for something that is obviously something that already exists..."My wife once criticized me for the exact opposite. I made reference to an ash tree in a SF novel (unpublished) during a vision scene. The book is about humans, but takes place in a different star system and makes no reference to Earth. She objected to me using an Earth tree because "there wouldn't be ash trees on the planets they come from."
I left it in because the people who would read it (assuming it ever got published) are humans from Earth, and the tree has symbolic meaning which someone might know or think to look up. If I just substituted a dorlak tree no one would know what it was or what it symbolized without me stepping outside the "show don't tell" rule and actually explain it.
She never got it.
...Come to think of it, though, I also had a drink called planos in that book, which was an obvious coffee analog...only it was red and came from a tree bark, and I don't mention caffeine.
