Animorphs and a rant about names
I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed reading my Animorphs books. It's a pity the ending sucks. I think that's what deters me from rereading the series more often.
Hey after I series that long I wanted some closure. I could have handled Rachel and Tom dying a lot better if Applegate could have had an ending that didn't involve them racing off to rescue Ax from some new mysterious menace. I don't object to Applegate's desire to have them go out the same way they came in 'fighting', but seriously, there are ways of doing that which don't involve cliffhangers.
Grr. Is as bad as the ending they had for The Pretender wherein the train carriage explodes and you're not sure if Jared and Miss Parker lived or died.
Still working on Anomalies. It's been slow going, I know. One day I might even have a finish product I actually like, heh.
Anyway, I have decided that I'm going to include another Mike in it. Except that he's going to go by a nickname. The point being that there are lots of Mike/Michaels and it's highly unrealistic for there only to be one character with a common name. Seriously. Everyone who has ever gone to school has been in at least one class where there were two more more people with the same name. In fact, in my last year of high school alone, in a class of 20 people, there were two Luke, two James (although one spelt his Jaemes - details), two Michelles, a Richelle and a Rochelle. Going through school and having "Chris S" and "Chris M" is both irritating (if you're Chris) and normal. In novels, however, it not normal to have characters with the same name. How is the reader supposed to differentiate the characters? Its very easy to get "Amy B" and "Amy K" confused. Seriously just reading a book where you have two characters whos names start with 'L' and are of similar length is enough to confuse the reader.
There are ways of exploring this issue without confusing the reader and I intend to.
Because where there were multiple Michelles and 'Shelly' was used up, I was known as "Michelle P". Not cool.
(And people wonder why I like unusual names)
Hey after I series that long I wanted some closure. I could have handled Rachel and Tom dying a lot better if Applegate could have had an ending that didn't involve them racing off to rescue Ax from some new mysterious menace. I don't object to Applegate's desire to have them go out the same way they came in 'fighting', but seriously, there are ways of doing that which don't involve cliffhangers.
Grr. Is as bad as the ending they had for The Pretender wherein the train carriage explodes and you're not sure if Jared and Miss Parker lived or died.
Still working on Anomalies. It's been slow going, I know. One day I might even have a finish product I actually like, heh.
Anyway, I have decided that I'm going to include another Mike in it. Except that he's going to go by a nickname. The point being that there are lots of Mike/Michaels and it's highly unrealistic for there only to be one character with a common name. Seriously. Everyone who has ever gone to school has been in at least one class where there were two more more people with the same name. In fact, in my last year of high school alone, in a class of 20 people, there were two Luke, two James (although one spelt his Jaemes - details), two Michelles, a Richelle and a Rochelle. Going through school and having "Chris S" and "Chris M" is both irritating (if you're Chris) and normal. In novels, however, it not normal to have characters with the same name. How is the reader supposed to differentiate the characters? Its very easy to get "Amy B" and "Amy K" confused. Seriously just reading a book where you have two characters whos names start with 'L' and are of similar length is enough to confuse the reader.
There are ways of exploring this issue without confusing the reader and I intend to.
Because where there were multiple Michelles and 'Shelly' was used up, I was known as "Michelle P". Not cool.
(And people wonder why I like unusual names)