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I have taken down Chapter 1 and replaced it with a new Prologue and a revised Chapter 1. Hopefully, this will make things a little easier to read. I am adding a glossary with pronunciations and definitions to the beginning of each chapter where new words and names appear.
My wife just got all over my case for using Scottish Gaelic names and words in this story. She's complaining that they are too hard to spell and impossible to pronounce. She has a point, but I told her that if she combed her hair differently, it wouldn't show. (I really did, but I hope she doesn't see this)
I haven't yet reached the point in the story where all of the history and back story come out, but I will eventually. More on that later. Still trying to decide if I should add it as a prologue or fit it in to the regular narrative, probably as school lessons and holiday speeches. I am thinking more the latter than the former. Comment if you have an opinion. I promise to consider all suggestions.
I have Ulster Scots and German ancestry on my mother's side of the family and Nordic (Swedish, Danish and Norwegian) ancestry on my father's side. I wanted to use that, but I suppose that I may have gone just a teensy bit overboard with the Scottish Gaelic. I'm not going to stop using it, but I will start showing pronunciation and meanings of the words and names in parenthesis if they are not familiar or clear and obvious. For example Sàm is pronounced 'Sam' and hach is like 'hatch' without the t sound.
I will do this with the German, Icelandic and other Nordic words also when they eventually appear.
I just realized that I posted a draft instead of the final edited version of the chapter. As soon as I can get my filing system straight, I will repost the correct version. My apologies to all.
Posting the first chapter of something new for me. I hope you like it.
The first few chapters are complete or partially written and I have about 30 chapters in outline. I will try to get a chapter up every week or so, but can't promise. I am autistic, have ADHD and some health issues. As well, my mother is 95 years old and will be having surgery to replace her pacemaker in the near future.
I am out of the hospital and finally getting over the brain fog from the anesthesia. Going to get the book I was working on posted even though it's not quite finished and I don't know when I will get back to it. Got something else hammering on the closet door screaming to get out.
I want to ask the SOL readers to help me out with something. I have a bit of a poem stuck in my head and can't remember the book I read it in. It goes like this:
"By the light of burning bridges,
I see there's no one left in range.
The stars are dust, the guns are rust
And the checkpoints have all changed.
Are the Shadows ahead the beckoning dead
Or the rescue squad returning?
The only light in my eyes tonight
Is the light of bridges burning."
If you know what the title of the book or the author is, please drop me a note.
Thanks to all.
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