A quick post

[rflong]

Just a quick post today.

Looks like I am going to be a bit swamped in the coming days.

I have crits which I am about to turn my attention to once I finish faffing about on the internet.

I'm in the middle of a short story which yesterday turned from a paranormal to the contemporary it actually wanted to be. Which is good because the market apparently prefers contemporaries at the moment. Many thanks to crystaljordan for the brainstorming! :) So I'm rewriting it.

In the mean time my edits for Soul Fire (To Regain Heaven that was) arrived. Among other things I have to either find a way to make Aoife easily pronouncible for an American reader or find another suitible name from Irish legends which is (that isn't Morrigan and Emer as I'm already using them). This particular Aoife is a villain. Any suggestions? :)

And sadly, we had a death in the family so I will probably be travelling to the UK at the end of next week. No dates as yet. Work, writing and renaming ancient Irish sorceresses will have to fall in around that.

Comments

[gabriel-writes.livejournal.com]

A-oh-fee, right?

It took me until the Harry Potter movies came out to pronounce Hermione's name correctly...

[rflong.livejournal.com]

Ee-fah - this is the problem. It looks nothing like it sounds... *sigh*

Wondering about Liannan - but it might be too close to Leanán Sidhe which is what the character is.

[gabriel-writes.livejournal.com]

I poked around a naming website and came up with these.

Aileen, (close to an American Eileen.)
Aislin.
Breda
Bree
Brianna
Brigid
Caitlin
Caitria
etc...

[kara-gnome.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry about the death, that is sad.

Hopefully the tasks all go well, and don't multiply the more you get into them. I don't know why that happens, but it always seems like it does, with writing. Some simple thing leads to three other things, I mean, and a few hours turns into a day. Weird! Hopefully travel goes well.

[theladywolf.livejournal.com]

Just spell it Efa. Looks kind of elvish actuallu like that. Though they might end up trying to pronounce it EF-A then. How about Iefa. That might pin them down more.


Sorry to hear about the death.

[rflong.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm sure it will work out in the end!

[rflong.livejournal.com]

I thought about Eefa, but it looks too Scandanavian to me.

I've got Aynia (a derivative of Áine) who was the most powerful fairy in Ulster in folklore and would be in keeping with the mythos in the story.

Oh and remember the Finbar discussion with irishkate? I must have heard it somewhere because I just realised (while reading through the edits) that my Sidhe King is called Finbar!

So there you go. It astounds me what's filed away in here sometimes...

[quiet-recluse.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about the death.

[irishkate.livejournal.com]

eva