tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033598682489350651.post2073364846621369475..comments2023-05-27T01:53:21.676-04:00Comments on Diane L. Major: Time and Chance (Neither Sharon K Penman nor Ecclesiastes)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033598682489350651.post-24957379873573708282016-09-03T23:49:11.531-04:002016-09-03T23:49:11.531-04:00Titles are difficult for me; the stories come with...Titles are difficult for me; the stories come with some subject that fascinates. Interesting about Louisa ... my middle name is Louise, and it's a derivative name from: Clovis. All the Kings Louis in France? Were essentially named for Clovis.<br /><br />The WIP circles around relations of his I found in early research for AX. My third novel will develop the legend of the beginning of the Major family line. (Bishop Mauger was a real figure, uncle of William the Conqueror who sided poorly and ended up in exile on Jersey, the Channel Island. His common-law wife, Guille, had been either a nun or a novice, and their offspring were said to have been "as numerous as blackberries in the field" ... so the working title for that has always been Blackberries, though that might evoke quite the wrong tone really.)<br /><br />I prefer The Last Queens myself, but even that doesn't feel exactly right. Perhaps because the novel decidedly does not focus entirely on the royal characters. But Time for Posterity was the phrase that "hit" me, and so I saved the doc again with that as a working title, because if nothing else it will remind me what I am *doing*.<br /><br />At some point, the title will come, I am sure. It may be something about darkness, as I'm basically writing about the last slinking into the (so-called) "Dark Ages". But, really, right now I don't even want to think about it!<br /><br />You have GREAT names. I'm lucky, my names are really fed to me. For my freedwoman, I had to name her myself, and that was enjoyable but not actually easy. Finding appropriate Carthegenian names for Late Antiquity for a woman is a remarkably scarce vein to try to tap. For one of the slaves, I chose the Greek name Glykeria; slaves in the period were often given Greek names regardless of their actual extraction. Everybody else, though, comes out of the sources. It was the same with AX, I only had to choose two names there I think.<br /><br />Still absolutely cannot wait to meet Mizz Dixie Dupree. Whose name is just a favorite of mine. (Am I mean, that I'm crossing my fingers my friend at work won't win that Goodreads contest for a copy, so I can buy it for her?)DLMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08768285199864217885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033598682489350651.post-26138087979058646872016-09-03T22:10:54.672-04:002016-09-03T22:10:54.672-04:00Hee! I wouldn't care if there was a BOO! fact...Hee! I wouldn't care if there was a BOO! factor - at all. Please Mr. Antag, reveal yourself! <br /><br />Funny, I like the title The Last Queens best. Time for Posterity...IDK. It doesn't hit me the same. <br /><br />I work in a weird way, Diane. I have to have a title, and for me, it has to be one I love. And then I have to have a name for my protag - and I have to love it. She was "X" for a while in the ms...but, I couldn't put her together in my head b/c...? No name. So, just about two weeks ago, it hit me. Louisa Simpson Creech, and she's called Sonny. It may stink to anyone else's ears, but I already love Sonny.<br /><br />:)Donnaevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09026536210749494257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033598682489350651.post-66220756770750281202016-09-02T19:49:18.054-04:002016-09-02T19:49:18.054-04:00I electrified quietly, but it was exciting, yes. R...I electrified quietly, but it was exciting, yes. Rather like when I met my best friend's fiance' for the first time and looked at him one single time and thought, "Oh, well, that's all right then." Sometimes, you really know.<br /><br />The title itself is of less importance than the moment was, the discovery. I even came up with another title (The Last Queens) but like that perhaps even less. It may be more appropriate, at least, than Time for Posterity is. I don't love the sound of either one; but the important thing is, I'm onto something. I'll find out the title, it can't hide from me! And, in the meantime, I have a long weekend to play and work on the <b>WIP</b>.<br /><br />May your antagonist sneak up on you with their own surprise(s?) soon. BOO!DLMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08768285199864217885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033598682489350651.post-19276707825680470282016-09-02T13:15:41.053-04:002016-09-02T13:15:41.053-04:00That must have been almost electrifying, that mome...That must have been almost electrifying, that moment. I'm waiting on such an epiphany with my current WIP. I have a title I love. A protag I think I'm going to love. Her family is intact, and in my mind, their personalities are forming. It's the antagonist. I'm not sure how he enters the story. I thought I knew - and now I'm not so sure. So I've stopped writing, and I'm back to the outline, and trying to figure it out.<br /><br />Or maybe I'm doing what you said - patting it's little plot bunnied head. :)Donnaevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09026536210749494257noreply@blogger.com