My writing peeve of the day

[annathepiper]

If I ever get to a position where, like the lovely and talented mizkit, I get to be worrying about such things as professional names to use on my novels, it will annoy me that I will not be able to have angelakorra'ti.com, on the grounds that you can't have an apostrophe in a domain name.

And after all the grumpy-making effort solarbird and I have had to go through over the years to get people to spell Korra'ti CORRECTLY, it would suck to have to misspell it on my own professional site. ;) It's ALMOST enough to make me decide to be Angela Highland for purposes of writing!

But okay FINE, I'll sell a book first. :)

Comments

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

You're doing better than I am on Belgium! (Chocolates and the Walloonatic; speaks French and Flemish; people are the Walloons and the Flemings; Capital is Brussels).

My Scottish history and grasp of culture is slightly better.

I could research it (have access to a university library, after all), but I've got enough on my plate with Zen gardens.

[annathepiper]

My pen pal lived in the French-flavored parts of Belgium; his name was Jean-Luc Milis (or, as he wrote it, Milis Jean-Luc), and he lived in Liege. So that's what I tend to remember. :)

I know just enough about Scotland to have an idea of who Bonnie Prince Charlie was, and about Culloden, and that's mostly only because I read Diana Gabaldon's book Outlander. Hee.

And I know what you mean about full plates!

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

Three cheers for Diana Gabaldon! *grin* Her books are fun. (Bit of a formula, though: historical misunderstanding, angst, angst, searching, searching, angst, quaint domesticness, angst, torture/horrible and stomach-turning injury of some kind, angst, sex scene, angst, another sex scene, happy fuzzy feeling.)

Bonnie Prince Charlie's by way of being a distant relative on my mother's side, if one goes by clans :) The Stuart I mentioned is Royal Stuart. Apparently.

*is Scottish princess or something*

:p

*is actually utterly mundane and plebian in terms of bloodlines, as far as she can tell, though she has a cousin who is Eminent*

[annathepiper]

I kinda noticed that with Gabaldon's books, and I've only read the one so far. ;) By the time I got to the end of Outlander, a not inconsiderable portion of my brain was going "ENOUGH WITH THE ANGST ALREADY!"

And whoot, extremely distant connection to Scottish royalty! ^_^