Aprilleigh
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I just realized my son (who is almost 10) shares an unusual name with one of your characters, Ser Galen. As many times as I've reread those books I'm shocked it took me this long to make that connection. Other than the historical significance, I thought the only other place I had seen it before was the character Richard Galen from STTNG (there's a bit of a family in-joke about the latter). Where did you get the name?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Galen is a fairly common name, going back to Roman times, where it was attached to a famous physician and medical writer. For Komarrans, I wanted Italian-flavored names, to evoke Venice.
Megan Whalen Turner has a physician minor character named Galen somewhere in her YA fantasy series starting with The Thief, which your son might be ready for in a year or so. I expect she was also thinking of the noted Roman.
Ta, L.
Galen is a fairly common name, going back to Roman times, where it was attached to a famous physician and medical writer. For Komarrans, I wanted Italian-flavored names, to evoke Venice.
Megan Whalen Turner has a physician minor character named Galen somewhere in her YA fantasy series starting with The Thief, which your son might be ready for in a year or so. I expect she was also thinking of the noted Roman.
Ta, L.
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When you have first started writing about Miles, did you have a clear idea of how his character would turn out? To what extent have you based him on the traits of real person/s - or is Miles entirely a product of your imagination? Was it your intention that he starts as a complete outsider and thus his physical appearance? I guess it says a lot about your optimism that he survived and never turned against Barrayar...
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Sybal Janssen
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
There are four writers that I reread and reread because their use of language sparkles for me in a special way. Those four are yourself, Patrick O'Brian, Terry Pratchett, and Vladimir Nabokov. In general would you say that your sentences just flow while you are engaged with the imagination, or do you spend a lot of time reworking your sentences to strike the exact note? LOL probably a question with no answer.
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