Stupid Thing I Stopped Myself From Saying
Or...Yes, The Dragon was cautious and DID NOT tell the grocery cashier that she has the name of a lesbian prostitute
Ah, the holidays. Hustle and bustle and opportunities to stop in at stores you don't normally go into...
I hit a different grocery store and went through a check-out lane where a cashier named Adelaide was working. Now, to anyone else, this would be no big deal, I'm sure. But I don't believe I've ever met anyone named Adelaide...other than the lovely woman in my Choices trilogy who helps Amanda Chariss. For a split second, I almost said, "Hey! I have a character in my fantasy novels named Adelaide!" Some folks get pretty stoked when you tell them a character shares their name. Then, thank God, a switch in my brain flipped to "wait." I don't know that the elderly lady wearing her carefully applied layers of Mary Kay would have appreciated my follow-up of, "Adelaide is the lesbian prostitute who gives information to the heroine..."
So I just kept my mouth shut...for a change!
"Some days, you just want the dragon to win."
Tags: Choices trilogy, Adelaide, Amanda Chariss, fantasy novel, lesbian
Or...Yes, The Dragon was cautious and DID NOT tell the grocery cashier that she has the name of a lesbian prostitute
Ah, the holidays. Hustle and bustle and opportunities to stop in at stores you don't normally go into...
I hit a different grocery store and went through a check-out lane where a cashier named Adelaide was working. Now, to anyone else, this would be no big deal, I'm sure. But I don't believe I've ever met anyone named Adelaide...other than the lovely woman in my Choices trilogy who helps Amanda Chariss. For a split second, I almost said, "Hey! I have a character in my fantasy novels named Adelaide!" Some folks get pretty stoked when you tell them a character shares their name. Then, thank God, a switch in my brain flipped to "wait." I don't know that the elderly lady wearing her carefully applied layers of Mary Kay would have appreciated my follow-up of, "Adelaide is the lesbian prostitute who gives information to the heroine..."
So I just kept my mouth shut...for a change!
"Some days, you just want the dragon to win."
Tags: Choices trilogy, Adelaide, Amanda Chariss, fantasy novel, lesbian
Labels: Choices trilogy, fantasy novel
posted by Sandy Lender | 12:32 AM
2 Comments:
I still would have been flattered if it had been me. =) But you never know!!!! You were probably very wise.
PS - I love that one of the tages for this blog post is lesbian, BTW
You probably handled it correctly, but still it might have been fun to see her expression when you gave her the details of her namesake!)
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