getting caught up
I did write today for a couple hours and actually produced some pages. One of the things that's slowing me down just now is a major character, just introduced, who has refused to tell me what he wants to be called. He has a formal first name but it's not what his friends call him. Every suggestion I make, he disdains. Partially this is a cultural issue: I just don't know him well enough yet, so we're in a catch-22. This is a good guy, a native speaker of a couple different languages (including Cajun French and English). A name suggested to me (by Jennet, of all people) was Ranger, but that doesn't work, either, because she's not American enough to know all the strange associations that go along with that one. Let me ask you: what associations do you have for the term Redbone? It's got quite a complex and checkered history, but I'm just wondering about first reactions.
Otherwise we're having the solstice party this evening and of course that's taking up time and energy. I have never been so behind before. Not one batch of cookies baked yet, and let me tell you: the girlchild is not happy about that. Also, I wanted to get particular dog beds for the puppy boys (called snuggle balls) and I can't find them anywhere. Well, okay. I can, but they were ten dollars over suggested retail and forget that.
Boring, eh? So no more of those awful details. Just tell me what jumps to mind (if anything) when you hear "Redbone."