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pjthompson) wrote2007-07-27 03:11 pm
pjthompson) wrote2007-07-27 03:11 pm
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What fools these mortals be
Writingness of the day: I've rechristened Brother Wolf because that working title is completely obsolete under the new scheme. Its new working title is, Rough Magic, but I'll probably change that, too. It harkens back to The Tempest, which isn't a bad thing at all, but unfortunately both Mary Stewart and Mercedes Lackey have used This Rough Magic, and a Russell Crowe movie was also called Rough Magic. (I happened to have loved that movie so much I bought it, but Rotten Tomatoes only gave it one fresh tomato out of seven, which I think is way too harsh.)
Yeah, yeah, I know, you can't copyright titles, but I don't like to go into a project with a title that I know has been used a few times. If that happens after a book has sold, tough bananas, but until that time, I'm going to try to come up with something else.
Titles are usually one of the first things that come to me for a project, and they become thoroughly ingrained with the story mythos—so changing the titles can be a painful affair. This one has had three so far: A Taste of Night was the original title, but it became obsolete, then I was considering taking up that name again until Vicki Petersson used it. Woe is me. One advantage of having so many back and forths with the name is that I didn't feel at all conflicted this time out.
What was I thinking? of the day: You know that inner critic you have, the one that's always telling you that your writing sucks? Yeah, I know you have one. I haven't known a writer who didn't, pro or non-pro. One of the more disturbing aspects of looking over this old material is that I apparently went through a phase where I formalized that internal negativity by putting them as footnotes in all my manuscripts. Egad! No wonder I didn't finish any writing for three years.
Yeah, yeah, I know, you can't copyright titles, but I don't like to go into a project with a title that I know has been used a few times. If that happens after a book has sold, tough bananas, but until that time, I'm going to try to come up with something else.
Titles are usually one of the first things that come to me for a project, and they become thoroughly ingrained with the story mythos—so changing the titles can be a painful affair. This one has had three so far: A Taste of Night was the original title, but it became obsolete, then I was considering taking up that name again until Vicki Petersson used it. Woe is me. One advantage of having so many back and forths with the name is that I didn't feel at all conflicted this time out.
What was I thinking? of the day: You know that inner critic you have, the one that's always telling you that your writing sucks? Yeah, I know you have one. I haven't known a writer who didn't, pro or non-pro. One of the more disturbing aspects of looking over this old material is that I apparently went through a phase where I formalized that internal negativity by putting them as footnotes in all my manuscripts. Egad! No wonder I didn't finish any writing for three years.