Where did you come up with the names Kneeknock Rise and Instep? Do they have any meaning?
Kneeknock comes from an old expression. Sometimes you still hear it: “I was so scared, my knees knocked together.” Instep was spur of the moment, when I was talking about the town at the foot of the hill, and the instep is a part of your foot. Instep is also common in the names of towns in Europe, but I don’t know what it means. Does the Megrimum represent anything? Where did that name come from? The name comes from an old word for headache. People used to say, “Oh, I’ve got the megrims,” and I just put a “um” on the end of it. The Megrimum is a similar creature to Big Foot, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Abominable Snowman – a creature that may or not be there, depending on your point of view. How did you come up with the name and idea for the Woldwellers? Wold is an old word for “wood” or “forest,” and I just tacked the word dweller onto the end of it to make it wood dweller or tree dweller. I didn’t make up the type of character, just the name for it. Why do you use so many similes
