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Readings and Rewritings
So, here’s the thing. I’m a writer. I’m also a teacher/actor/singer/dance. You would think that the last four would mean that I don’t get that heart pounding, stomach churning panic before I go up to read my work, right? You’d be wrong. For some reason, I can get up in front of 45 kids, hundreds of audience members, even over 1, 000 people and all I get is a little speed up of heartbeat. For some reason though, when I read my own words it’s totally panic inducing. On the last day of January, Laurie asked me about reading. The conversation went something like this:“So, Christina, you’ll read next week,…
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The Trouble With Names…
So, it’s been an interesting if crazy week and this is something that I’m sure many writers have faced before. I have a character that has been named Damsine Rhea for 15 years. When I had someone else read it they mispronounced the name so I changed the phonetics to what I heard in my head (essentially Damsin Rhee). I mentioned it to a friend of mine who responded with, “Um, I hate to tell you this, but there’s a character who is named Damson Rhee in a classic fantasy series. Don’t think you can use the changed version legally.” They then promptly signed off to go to bed for…