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superhero_musesI'm home at last after a month on the road! And battling a vicious chest cold (travel may broaden the mind, but it definitely weakens the immune system, alas). But bravely writing smut through the pain! *puts back of hand to forehead dramatically*
This week's question: How did you come up with the title to your current WiP(s)?
Ugh, I'm in an Unsatisfactory Title Rut right now, so this is poorly timed! "A Week of Rain" was my fallback because the events described take place over roughly a week. And it rains a lot during it. *sigh* I mean rain is symbolic of a lot of things in the story, so it's not quite THAT banal, but it's close.
"To the Victors..." is the working title of the story in which my wrestling frenemy OTP accidentally wins the tag team titles and has to deal with the repercussions. It was originally "One is Silver and the Other, Gold," but that seemed too long and also I wasn't sure anyone would know what it was a reference to (Girl Scout camp doggerel might not be on everyone's reference list).
I hope your writing is going well, that your health is good, and that your titles are inspiring!
This week's question: How did you come up with the title to your current WiP(s)?
Ugh, I'm in an Unsatisfactory Title Rut right now, so this is poorly timed! "A Week of Rain" was my fallback because the events described take place over roughly a week. And it rains a lot during it. *sigh* I mean rain is symbolic of a lot of things in the story, so it's not quite THAT banal, but it's close.
"To the Victors..." is the working title of the story in which my wrestling frenemy OTP accidentally wins the tag team titles and has to deal with the repercussions. It was originally "One is Silver and the Other, Gold," but that seemed too long and also I wasn't sure anyone would know what it was a reference to (Girl Scout camp doggerel might not be on everyone's reference list).
I hope your writing is going well, that your health is good, and that your titles are inspiring!
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Date: 2016-09-17 05:01 pm (UTC)So Clash of Lines started out as Running For Love and Joining of Lines (which I'm still not happy with) had a different title. Consort of the Crystal Palace was, I believe Fairy Tale Romance for about three quarters of the book. And now I'm officially writing Ship Wrecked even though the story has not one ship wreck in it and it will be named something else entirely once I'm done. Possibly related to unstoppable forces because Min-Su is the metaphorical unstoppable force. *grin*
Writing was going well but I came down with a cold on Thursday, was completely ugh in bed all day yesterday and am barely functional today. I still managed to write on Thursday and yesterday. I intend to write today too as the next scene is Very Clear In My Mind why aren't you writing it now??? But after that I may collapse back into sniffly hacking miserableness. I hate being sick so very much. *sad sigh*
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Date: 2016-09-19 03:30 am (UTC)Oh man, I am in exactly the same boat this week--sick BUT ALSO with a scene in my head at that "This is ripe and you really need to get it down" stage, and it's killing me. Dannnng.
Ship Wrecked is an awesome title, and I almost want you to try and put some ship to wreck in there just to justify the title. :)