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Book titles
I read some very good advice on picking out a name recently, and it helped me find the name of my second book in the Oshkosh Trilogy.
The advice said to look for your title within your book. It said somewhere in the book itself is your title, you just have to find it.
The advice said it was very important that your title accurately represent the book.
I thought about one of my favorite titles, "Gone with the Wind."
I remember encountering the phrase 'gone with the wind' while reading the book. One of the strong characters, a mentor to Scarlett, was waxing philosophical about how to survive the changing times. She talked about the difference between a brittle tree and a bendable reed when it came to surviving a strong wind, and how the bendable reed was actually stronger than the brittle tree, even though it didn't look like it.
Margaret Mitchell originally picked the title "Tomorrow is another Day." This is Scarlett's phrase that she says to herself to keep her going, but it doesn't capture the spirit of the book as well as "Gone with the Wind."
I found the title for my sequel to The Dark Lake while discussing some of the themes of the book with my husband. I realized it was a book about the formation of identity during your teenage years.
In the story, Janey Lou begins to ask people to call her Jane instead. She is changing her identity (or trying to) and growing up, (or trying to.)
Then I realized I had my title.
"Call me Jane"
The advice said to look for your title within your book. It said somewhere in the book itself is your title, you just have to find it.
The advice said it was very important that your title accurately represent the book.
I thought about one of my favorite titles, "Gone with the Wind."
I remember encountering the phrase 'gone with the wind' while reading the book. One of the strong characters, a mentor to Scarlett, was waxing philosophical about how to survive the changing times. She talked about the difference between a brittle tree and a bendable reed when it came to surviving a strong wind, and how the bendable reed was actually stronger than the brittle tree, even though it didn't look like it.
Margaret Mitchell originally picked the title "Tomorrow is another Day." This is Scarlett's phrase that she says to herself to keep her going, but it doesn't capture the spirit of the book as well as "Gone with the Wind."
I found the title for my sequel to The Dark Lake while discussing some of the themes of the book with my husband. I realized it was a book about the formation of identity during your teenage years.
In the story, Janey Lou begins to ask people to call her Jane instead. She is changing her identity (or trying to) and growing up, (or trying to.)
Then I realized I had my title.
"Call me Jane"
