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Okay, who wants to help me name the first chapter/issue in last year's NaNo?

Breakdown:
Alice, a Private Eye and our Byronic hero, happily turned her back on the magical community 10 years ago. Today, however, a face from her past turned up to ask her to track down a missing person. She's being blackmailed into taking the job, essentially, as the girl's promising to give her the other half of a photograph of her and her ex-girlfriend Miranda (a bisexual, confident gypsy-like woman with a torture fetish). Al suspects that Miranda's behind it, but can't prove anything.

The novel:
Al gets slowly drawn back into the magical community after her PI partner Mark commits suicide, and the missing boy seems to be behind a drain of magic from the world, and turns out to be trapped in dreams, due to the tutorage he's received from Miranda. Stuff happens. (The middle's still rather shady). It's funny in places (I hope), but is essentially a tragedy...Al loses everything that was important to her by the end.

I need this thing named tonight. Anyone offer any suggestions?

Date: 2002-11-10 03:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fineliner.livejournal.com
Dani, this is not your mother speaking:

you need to quit writing here and in NaNo and start writing/studying for end-of-year stuff.

*not even a hint of a joke*

Date: 2002-11-10 03:45 am (UTC)
ext_12944: (angry)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
I AM This is my end of year assignment for Extended Fiction.

Also LAST YEAR'S NANO.

Date: 2002-11-10 04:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vonlooney.livejournal.com
I've always been shithouse at naming stories (look no further than my fanfic...such a daggy title), but I find a nice little snippet of Wittgenstein or Nietzsche usually does the trick.

Or *insert philosopher/writer of choice here*

Thankee very much for reviewing the VSD of SS! I really, really appreciate it!

Date: 2002-11-10 04:41 am (UTC)
ext_12944: (happy)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
No worries at all; my pleasure. :D

I've tried finding random quotes, with no success so far.

chapter title

Date: 2002-11-10 05:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bottleofred.livejournal.com
How about "Long time, no sidhe!" for the first chapter?

Or "Back to the looking glass"?

Or "Murder, momentos and mythological mates"?

-BoR

Re: chapter title

Date: 2002-11-10 05:23 am (UTC)
ext_12944: (thoughtful)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
Hmm. Maybe. Definitely not the first one, though...

Re: chapter title

Date: 2002-11-10 05:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bottleofred.livejournal.com
Oh! That was my favourite! :0(


"Cars Magica"? "The Ides of Much"? "Chapter One: It begins"? "The things we do for rent money?" "Please collect your emotional baggage from the front of the train..."

*winces* they're getting worse. will stop immediately for OHS reasons.

-BoR

Re: chapter title

Date: 2002-11-10 05:51 am (UTC)
ext_12944: (sorry)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
If it was a comedy, I wouldn't hesitate so much, but it's meant to be a dark tragedy. The noir-er (that's so not a word) the better. At the moment it stands at "Photos of Past Lives"...

...which is infinitely better than what I had before "Ex-Drunken Irish Poet", something I pulled from a Peter Carey short story out of desperation.

Re: chapter title

Date: 2002-11-10 06:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bottleofred.livejournal.com
"Old wounds", "Old friends never heal" or "Portrait of a lady"?

-BoR

Date: 2002-11-10 07:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gadge.livejournal.com
The Haunts of the Past.

'Cause a play on anything involving dream imagery would be cool.

Date: 2002-11-11 06:01 am (UTC)
ext_12944: (silly)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
I kinda like this one, but I'm also rather liking "Photos of Past Lives" as the opening chapter title. Maybe I'll use this one for one of the billion more chapter/issues I have to do. :D

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