The Desert Mermaid

Yeah, it's kinda hard to stay away from when you're making up a new world--after all, otherwise what's the point of having that new world? The trouble arises when you swamp someone with stuff that's hard to read, or use an alternative for a perfectly good English word. And often even when I do use a made-up word, it's a creative rearrangement of English--something that you can easily guess atand isn't hard to read over and over.

Hitting an unfamiliar word is the same feeling as stumbling. I try to avoid that.