not so much bookkeeping as grumbling

[truepenny]

Have cut the still nameless SF story by 400 words, and have sweated blood to do it, let me tell you.

I hate titles. I suck at them. I especially suck at coming up with a new title for something which already had one, even when the old title was something I loathed and abominated. The story is sneering at me and snickering up its sleeve.

I want to start DL Ch. 6, and that's being recalcitrant, too.

*grumble*growl*snarl*snap*

On the plus side, the bread is rising peacefully, it's a beautiful day, and every time I go look at it, Chapter Five is still finished. That's good.

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[oracne.livejournal.com]

I hate titles. I suck at them. I especially suck at coming up with a new title for something which already had one, even when the old title was something I loathed and abominated. The story is sneering at me and snickering up its sleeve.

I had an editor tell me she wanted to change the title of my story once. She wanted the title to be more directly descriptive of the events within. We had to go back and forth in email about ten times before we finally agreed on something, and I'm still not happy with the one we ended up with. (I had named it "Among the Lilies," and it was changed to "Twisted Beauty.")

Also character name changes take a long time to get used to. I used to have a bad habit of having too many people whose names started with the same letter, as with the 1919 characters. I'm beginning to adjust, but I caught myself just this weekend mentally referring to Rosalind as Miranda.