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I've got me a title!


TheZot

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Woohoo!

 

Yeah, stupid though it may sound, one of the things that's been holding me up on the sequel to Yankee (besides work, other writing commitments, the straight romance novel, family time, and a serious attempt to make things good with my wife) is the title. I've been calling it "Yankee II" but, let's be honest, as a title that stinks. (Granted, there are worse, but who wants worse than that?) The title helps me, since it mostly sums up the story, at least until it's got enough traction for the text to stand on its own.

 

Well, I finally figured it out, after batting around more of the outline for the thing this afternoon. (And yep, that means it's mostly plotted, though going from a working plot outline to actual text isn't entirely trivial for non-fluff pieces)

 

I was thinking I could call it "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may die," but that's too long. Nice, but too long. Instead, Yankee's sequel is gonna be called...

 

Carpe Diem

 

(Yes, I did count characters to force the title off the summary page. Why do you ask? :) )

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Guest Rob Hawes

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Love the title mate - and I'm really looking forward to reading it when it comes out. I'm sure I'll enjoy it as much as Yankee. :D

 

I know what you mean about the right title - I can't even begin writing unless I've got the perfect title for my story. Then again, I'm slightly anal.

B1ue

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Sometimes I'm like that, where I can't really begin unless I have a title to live up to. More often, I just pick a title at random, and as I get into it and towards finishing it, I go through several more titles trying to find a better one. I wrote a short story a month ago, about fourty pages long, and its various titles have been: "Faulkner's Bastard," "Finals Week Recovery," "Passing the Love of Women," "Photograph," "Every Memory," and the final one, "We re," which is a slight joke, harkening back to the orginal influence of William Faulkner.

 

Carde Diem does sound pretty spiffy, and fits into where, yeah, I still can't remember his name off hand, Kung-Fu is growing as a character.

TheZot

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Heh. Poor Justin, nobody can remember his name. :)

 

The sequel's entirely Rob's story. Justin comes into it since he really can't not, but he doesn't actually appear in all that much of the story. Which is fine, it seems to work OK anyway.

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