Organization and Request for Assistance
Jan. 2nd, 2005 03:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I just went through and renamed all the files that contain the parts of the novel that are in series, calling them, for want of an actual title, "Annarisse" and a number. There are ten actually written, the longest of which is 12 000 words. in total, I have more than 50 000 written. I also started writing detailed outlines for the next few sections of the book. I got to the chapter which should be the climax, and typed in the title: Annarisse 13 - The Sea Witch. Then i stopped.
You see, that sounds so - Disney - to me. I can't see myself actually using that. And at the moment, I can't think of it any other way.
So here's what I need: suggestions. I believe she had a name, in Piet's notes, but those aren't published anywhere so they can be changed. I want a character name, and I want a title I can use for her that won't completely give the plot away. "Oh, don't look now, here comes the climax! THey're going to fight a Sea Witch! Is her name Ursula, by any chance?" She's a bad'un, totally depraved, quite prepared to ruin whole civilizations in retribution for what was done to her before any of her current victims were even born.
Please? Help???
And while you're all exercising your brains on my behalf, if you can suggest titles for the whole book, I'd appreciate it. :)
You see, that sounds so - Disney - to me. I can't see myself actually using that. And at the moment, I can't think of it any other way.
So here's what I need: suggestions. I believe she had a name, in Piet's notes, but those aren't published anywhere so they can be changed. I want a character name, and I want a title I can use for her that won't completely give the plot away. "Oh, don't look now, here comes the climax! THey're going to fight a Sea Witch! Is her name Ursula, by any chance?" She's a bad'un, totally depraved, quite prepared to ruin whole civilizations in retribution for what was done to her before any of her current victims were even born.
Please? Help???
And while you're all exercising your brains on my behalf, if you can suggest titles for the whole book, I'd appreciate it. :)
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Date: 2005-01-02 09:03 pm (UTC)(Give that lady a Seegar!!)
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Date: 2005-01-02 09:06 pm (UTC)Now could you offer an actual, possible suggestion, please?
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Date: 2005-01-03 12:45 am (UTC)However, in general, I favour titles or names that aren't intended to be particularly forboding but that begin to communicate meaning based on the way the characters treat them. The two really good examples I can think of are 'The Kindly Ones' (for Faeries in old English myth) and the 'The Doctor' (if you don't know, ask your husband). Both fairly dull, abstract titles that don't communicate forboding or excitement particularly, but the way that everyone reacts to them gives the terms a life of their own...
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Date: 2005-01-03 01:31 am (UTC)Hmm. This bears more thought.
Oh, I got the Doctor reference. I've been with Piet for nearly eleven years, after all. :)
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Date: 2005-01-03 12:58 am (UTC)...sailing/saline jokes....
Mizzen Persons....
Sorry *compose self*
Saline Sorcery.
Nope. Mr.brain is being uncooperative.
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Date: 2005-01-03 01:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-03 02:20 am (UTC)Sea is salty and we have the alliterative S with Sorcery.
But alternative for "Sea Witch"?
Apocalypso is taken by Robt. Rankin I think...
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Date: 2005-01-03 02:31 am (UTC)Annarisse is the name of the character I actually played in this campaign. She's a priestess. She's very uptight, getting less so by the scene, has a dad who has more opinions and power than love or understanding, and she gets to work through her faith over the course of the pirate adventure book she finds herself in. Who was it who said all good characters are slightly autobiographical?
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Date: 2005-01-03 02:20 pm (UTC)Lovely title that has you guessing when you pick it up - and since the book is one long sea voyage, then the name of the original ship fits perfectly.
As for the Sea Hag... perhaps just something simple -
"The woman in green"
"Lady of the Deep"
"The Ocean's Secret"
etc etc
(I like lady of the deep) ;o)
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Date: 2005-01-03 03:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-03 03:31 pm (UTC)Like Laurel K Hamilton - she names her books after places and things in the world - like 'The Lunatic Cafe'. Or Brian Jaques and 'Redwall' etc.
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Date: 2005-01-03 07:55 pm (UTC)I almost think I'd be better naming the book The Riddock's Dawn, or just Riddock's Dawn. They spent more time on the second ship than the first. But the name Spirit of Midchain rings better, and I might be able to pull the legend in a bit better than the actual history of the second ship.
I've been reading Guy Gavriel Kay, and his style is definitely rubbing off on me. :) If you've never picked up his stuff, do. It's incredible.
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Date: 2005-01-03 09:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-03 09:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-03 10:05 pm (UTC)Thats by far my favourite fantasy author, and co 'favourite author *ever*' with C.S. Lewis.
I'll look your guy up.