Re: Crowlet and title noodle
- From: Graham Woodland <gray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:33:57 +0000
Bill Swears wrote:
Graham Woodland wrote:
I'm still a bit ambivalent about the working title, which is presently
_Killer-Kate and Luke Lackland_. Any thoughts?
Not really knowing the story, it's hard to guess, but: fewer words seem
to make a stronger title, and I prefer titles whose true significance
becomes apparent only during the reading.
Based on what you wrote in the e-mail, Killer's Yule?
Thanks -- that's certainly strong, but for spoilerish reasons it doesn't
seem quite right. The obvious allusive title would be something like _Red
Flowers_, which in that part of the world is a conventional metaphor for
fire -- and a sinister one, since it appears most often in epic poetry and
threatening aristocratic correspondence. Anyone who's read _Katy_ first
may well pick up on this from the start.
There are several other ways of reading that image which also arise
naturally from the tale. And the subtitle gives the seasonal note already:
_The Deed of Katy Elflocks_, A Song of a Summer;
_The Rescuer of Realms_, The Story of a Fall;
and
_XXX_, A Winter's Tale.
But I think _Red Flowers_ is too weak a title, and over-oblique for the tone
I'm using.
No obviously right way to incorporate Yule into the title comes to mind yet,
though I shall just be turning that around in my head for a while longer.
_Katy_ itself went through a number of titles whilst being written, which
is not usual for me -- so my mind may change several times as this one
unfolds, too.
--
Cheers,
Gray
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