Boring ol' day

[rolanni]

Did the gym thing (got to get back to doing more of the gym thing, alas, as there is a little too much of me nowadays. These are the wages of a winter of indolence.), went out to the post office. Anticipated check not there. Sang to myself on the way home.

Balanced the house checkbook. Sang to myself some more.

Had lunch with kinzel, after which the two of us ventured out into the day to visit our friends at the Animal House in their new!improved! digs. Looks very nice, lots more room, very airy and spacious. I hope they do well there.

Made a quick stop at the grocery store and home to dishes and a Very Tiny Bit of writing -- mostly dialog, but good dialog. I'm liking Mr. Ignat' a lot, a viewpoint not necessarily shared by Our Heroine. Have to knock off early because of the meeting scheduled for this evening -- for which I am Almost Late...

Progress on the Book Without a Name

59,647 / 98,000 (60.9%)

Comments

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

You're making good progress on the book. Why so much trouble for a working title?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Why so much trouble for a working title?

Well, the viewpoint is... close-mouthed and more inclined to tell me to mind my own beeswax than Share Stuff. Even Stuff that I actually need to know. So my usual strategy, of hooking something clever that (one of) the viewpoint(s) says is Right Out. Not that Kate doesn't say clever things, dear love that she is, but they're mostly profane on one level or another.

The most obvious title (and the one I like the most) is, alas, an Actual Place in the Real Life equivalent of the town in which the story takes place. Since the Actual Place is not a Public Place, but a private one, that title is Right Out.

Second most obvious title would indicate that I was willing to write six books in series, which I'm, um, not. I think.

kinzel suggests Carousel Tides, which may do as a working title. Certainly, it's shorter than The Book Without a Name...

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

A problem, indeed. I am reminded of L'Engle's trouble naming A WRINKLE IN TIME, a title her mother finally suggested. It was going to be called "The Adventures of Mrs. What, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which" or something of that ilk.

And would it have won the Newbery with that name, I ask?