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I suppose it could happen. Not after the uterus is cut open (because then the muscles wouldn't squeeze out the kid), but between the time when mom was draped and the incision was made.

Though I think they would notice if the water broke on the table (splaaaashhhhhh). Assuming that she broke her water during the earlier labor, then that wouldn't be a clue. Once the epidural took effect, I would expect that the contractions would stop, as well. Apparently, that didn't happen. And since she couldn't feel below her waist, she didn't feel that there was a lump there. And the baby was fine because the circulation was still pumping through the cord.

One of those weird moments that could have happened. Though after 36 hrs of labor, she was clearly not advancing and they would have checked her cervix and known this. I don't think the medical people should be blamed for a scar or an unnecessary procedure, though. This is one of those situations where the baby decided to be as inconvenient as possible. And the hospital is unavailable for comment, so who the hell knows what really happened. Whenever you have a single viewpoint on the news, I get kind of skeptical.

Oh, I am like an elephant. My sister complains that I remember EVERYTHING and that I need to let some things go. Unfortunately for her, I could forget a dozen moments from our adult life and still have material to use against her :-)  Consider it a survival trait as I finally stopped letting her walk over me.

Oh, K? Just to be clear. You are not Batman.

Funny story...some of the characters in my book are based off the roleplaying of college friends. One gave me no material to work with, describing his character just as, "He's like Batman." 

That character isn't in my book, BTW. (rolling my eyes.) 

Then I was having a debate with the guy who is the template for Kha. When I wasn't sure how to write the action, he said, "He's like Batman." I nearly choked. First, there can't be TWO Batmans in my world. (How do you even pluralize that one? Anyway...) Second, Kha is NOTHING like Batman and I pulled executive privilege and told him where to stick his delusions of grandeur and vigilantiism. It involved a place where the sun don't shine.

OK, I'm going to stop bombing Kennedy's thread now...

Bad habit.  Sorry :-)

WELCOME BACK!

Call it what ya like. Definitely pink.

Well, at least you aren't writing everything out by hand. However, trying to get me to learn shorthand in the process…

Don't know if that skill set is in the cards for today. Tomorrow may be another matter. You remind me of buddies in college who wrote notes to each other in runes. Except they weren't very efficient and the message was in progress by the time the other person entered the room.

Trust me. Let me explore this. What I have now has gone through multiple formats. I have a plan. We'll see if it survives contact with the enemy.

I haven't forgotten, but the specific advice is handy to have closer to my current thoughts. I really believe that Acts needs to be separated into two. A consistent theme is that Acts starts moving around the duel. Before that, it is all introduction. I need to graph out chapters and see where I can fit in Alina as the initial villain, while pushing the necromancer/ Zyrtec/ the necromancer into the background and pull them out for the second book.

Thanks for the reminder, though. I could make the healing of Kha in a shadow book. That way, all the lieutenants (and Kha) see how Anver eliminated the curse.  Hmmm. It would really work Anver's last nerve if his secrets got revealed. It would also add validity to the Chronomancer and his relay of events.

Got it.

I said the same thing. Three books later, I'm still writing about the same event from different perspectives. Ah, the agony!

It's a hard question to answer. I have a sense for words because of my medical background. Dissecting Latin means that I'm looking for the origin of words. Part of the patterning that I do when I think.

It is interesting because I was nitted on modern words/ phrases (in my own work) frequently in the beginning of my time at TNBW. I used to use slang for Alda in an attempt to make her an anachronist (out of place and time). Instead of her saying, "Verily" and "Forsooth", I chose modern terms and slang to shift her voice out of the standard phrasing of the other characters.  If I used common current phrasing (most recent was saying that a situation 'sucked like a babe newborn'), then my readers picked up on these immediately.

So my way of deciding the criteria? If this was one of my attempts to shift Alda's voice and someone recognized it, then I delete that phrase. In my opinion, there are going to be a lot of readers, but the cross-section of TNBC will pick up on a shift of tone or voice that I miss. I don't dig my heels in the sand over one word. This is one of the many ways that I use the people who nit at my work. Elisheva pointed out more than one of these moments in her last review. As she comes into her own as a reviewer, she is using her skills as a reader to my advantage.

I'm rambling.

OK, IMO, the criteria for 'too modern' is a technical term or something that hasn't become 'invisible speech'.  I:E, words that have been added to English within the past 200 years or that have morphed into different meanings.  Ex: Gay used to mean happy. Now it has an entirely different meaning. I would never use it in my fantasy world because it could be misinterpreted. Dinky is a term from the late 1780's (scottish=dink) meaning small, delicate, neatly dressed and then altered over time to mean tiny and insignificant.

Another example is the term 'jerkwater'. As in 'jerkwater town'. (A tiny little place in the middle of nowhere.)  This term evolved from the railroads, where water was required for steam locomotives. The train would pull up, jerk on the rope/ chain, and fill their reservoir with water. Then the train would continue to the real destination. Using this term in medieval fantasy would be inappropriate.

I place 'dinky' in the same category as 'jerkwater'.

FYI, I think that sarcasm can be placed into a phrase without using these types of words. Give me the General's sentence again and lets see if I can come up with a new word or phrase for you.

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Andalaya and Anver were friends. She tutored him but I think she was younger and he advanced quicker. It shouldn't be a problem.

Correct. More strongly to the Lance. Fuck. I forgot about that damn ring in Jaylene's pocket. AGAIN. My own spell is working on me. Yes, the Gillis will react much more strongly to Jaylene than it did before. I will write that in to the attempted rescue of Petra. That way, there is going to have to be a rescue within a rescue.

Since you are providing me with a cra*l**d of material for revision, I'll add in Andalaya now. She will take the place of Tilly in the first three chapters. Then the fourth chapter starts, with Anver stomping away from Alina's school. The 'duel' has happened in between these chapters, and Anda is now gone from the picture. Tilly has taken her place. It gives Anver a reason to hate Alina far more than before. And add insult to injury, since Alina has essentially killed one of the students and is now bringing them into her residence for menial chores as if nothing ever happened.