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| The Life of a Bard by Dreamflower | 121 Review(s) |
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| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 9/21/2004 |
| What a promising beginning! I like your wandering minstrel already; I can only imagine how difficult it would be to be a musical soul in a city preparing for inevitable war, especially when one had no talent with weapons! Ah, a reference to those disreputable Banks cousins! Lovely when stories are tied together, somehow. (I think I'm addicted to the practice.) A tune for a mug, sounds quite promising. The word "blown" sounds a bit modern in the context of spending all of one's pocket money, just to let you know it momentarily jarred me out of the mood you so masterfully were weaving. I may be wrong and it may not be a contemporary usage at all, but it reminds me of the "hippie-speak" my older sibs used to employ when they were trying to impress people with how "cool" they were, quite a few years back (but not all *that* long ago in the grand scope of things). I am looking forward to the minstrel meeting the tween, as you've set it up quite nicely. Author Reply: I'm glad you are liking Menelcar. He's on a little quest of his own, to find out about the origin of some songs he heard in Dale and Erebor. When I thought of his origin, I was thinking of some different things that Beregond, Boromir and Faramir had to say about life in the White City. Yes. Well. I seem to have learned that from you. 8-D (And it is a nice addiction.) I know that I have encountered "blew" used that way in British novels of the twenties and thirties, but now I'm not sure now about "blown". I will check it out in context and see if I should change it to that. I'll have to see. Even if it is correct, I don't want to be causing that little jolt we all dread in a good story. Yes, that will be an interesting meeting, I hope. Author Reply: Thought I'd let you know that after consideration, I changed "blown" to spent. I discussed it with someone else, and she admitted that the word had given her a start as well. I looked in a couple of said novels, just to flip through, and though I did indeed find "blew" used as I thought, I never did find "blown" used in that way. Odd, but true. ( I guess it's like the whole "got/gotten" thing. ) Thanks for the heads up. 8-) | |