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Got a submission sent to all three ZNB slushpiles this year, which is sort of exciting. Absolutely stymied on a title for a thing I have written, which is adorable and deserves a competent title, a pity the author is incompetent with titles. I am having emotions about some of the things I can see on the submission grinder but I do not actually know what those emotions are, aside from 'moderate stress, partly because I don't know what my feelings are doing'. Feeling worried about the prospects of a thing which did, technically, sell already.
I read a book today! Redshirts, which is very easy to say "I read a book today" about, but Scalzi makes no bones about writing things that read fast.
I am unseasonably exhausted. I want to do things with my brain but apparently my whole system has gone, "Nope, done now." Maybe I will get to exist as an entity with working cognition again in the new year.
Really wanna fix that title problem though.
ETA: Had a lovely conversation about excess Georges and what to do with them.
I read a book today! Redshirts, which is very easy to say "I read a book today" about, but Scalzi makes no bones about writing things that read fast.
I am unseasonably exhausted. I want to do things with my brain but apparently my whole system has gone, "Nope, done now." Maybe I will get to exist as an entity with working cognition again in the new year.
Really wanna fix that title problem though.
ETA: Had a lovely conversation about excess Georges and what to do with them.
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In the original draft of the Doorstop, I had decided that "Orm" was about like "John" and there were a lot of them; Sword-Orm, Ax-Orm, Left-Orm, Orm from , etc.
Reader response was uniformly horrified.
Sorry to hear about the exhaustion; I hope you get sufficient rest, dietary complex grease, and some approximation of sunlight.
It may be that in this case the title is like a name for a cat, and may arrive some time after the cat itself.
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(My problem is that I have a world where female names have a 't' or a 's' ending, and male names have an 'r' or a 'm' ending, and names usually have three syllables, and my readers all complain that the names sound the same and are much too fantasy-sounding! But does anybody ever complain about "Joanna" and "Gloria" and "Katerina"? Noooooo....)