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[maderr]

There are some terms I just cannot take seriously. No good reason for it, maybe, but my eyes roll right out of my head when some terms pop up. I'm sure I'm guilty of using equally ridiculous terms at times, there is no soapbox or claim to perfection here. I'm just saying, when a character wakes up and realizes that the daystar has not risen yet, I laugh out loud.

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[stardance.livejournal.com]

When I write sci fi I generally think of my work in terms of translation. So if something has a particular name it can stay "native", but if the language they were speaking called the sun something that translated literally as "day star" you'd still translate it into "sun". That's my two cents as a linguist anyway.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

It's not sci-fi, just simple fantasy.

[stardance.livejournal.com]

I don't write fantasy very often :P So sci fi is the level on which I can relate.

[sixpence1323.livejournal.com]

DAYSTAR?

>_

[hayama-sb.livejournal.com]

The only way I could see using "Daystar" would be if the planet had say two stars, no moon & one star was closer to the planet than the other. Then I could then see calling one the "Daystar" & the other the "Nightstar."

[raielchan.livejournal.com]

Ooo, we're talking sci-fi.

I had to click to read these comments since I thought daystar was a euphemism for morning wood.

[gwaihiril.livejournal.com]

Whereas I think "Daystar? Wasn't that the name of Cimorene's son in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles?" I would be totally distracted if I read a book that used the word daystar for sun. I fell prey to this once when I wrote a (very) short story for my school literary magazine and it had been sci-fi-ish when I wrote it, but it was immediately taken out and I realized there was no point to it.

[lokiloo.livejournal.com]

Day star? Night sun? LOLLERSKATES. X3

[chilayse.livejournal.com]

Daystar sounds like a great name for a space ship or something...the kind that gets exploded.....

[saaski-moql.livejournal.com]

How ironic, that I just got in from astronomy class...

Anyway! Mygoodnessmygoodness Kiss the Rain eeee. About as coherent as I'm going to get, I'm afraid. But it just full of "awwww" and made me happy! ^^;; I've read it through twice already, and it was so neat to catch everything the second time around.

Behind the mask I also really liked, especially because I really did not have an idea of where you were going with it from one moment to the next. The idea of the masks in themselves were also very cool.

For all that the stories are short, you are able to make them have just enough backstory and plot to make them stories over rambles and half-finished tales. I like them very much. Heh, I am also noticing a distinct theme with the characters I like the most. It is obvious that usually it's the snippy ones XD;

[adry2000.livejournal.com]

i just bought 2 of your books. please tell me are you going to publish Dark Magic in the near by future?I would like to buy it.

[camden-rehab.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that I thought it was a bad innuendo... *tries to hoist mind out of gutter*