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Jan. 31st, 2005 11:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julesjonesThe silkie story is now up to 14,000 words, and has acquired a working title: Spindrift.
The finished novella, on the other hand, has an unchanged word count but has acquired a new title. It started with the title I used for the short story it grew out of, but Mindscan is probably a rather more sane choice for a title that's going on a book cover rather than on an anthology contents page. For a start, the potential reader doesn't have to stop and work out how to pronounce it.
And in a break with my usual practice, I came up with a title for the planned sequel before doing anything other than scribbling some notes for said sequel. I will not jinx it by saying in public what it is. I already have quite enough of a tendency towards stories heading in a completely different direction to that planned, and I don't want to encourage my subconscious by giving it a title to make irrelevant.
The finished novella, on the other hand, has an unchanged word count but has acquired a new title. It started with the title I used for the short story it grew out of, but Mindscan is probably a rather more sane choice for a title that's going on a book cover rather than on an anthology contents page. For a start, the potential reader doesn't have to stop and work out how to pronounce it.
And in a break with my usual practice, I came up with a title for the planned sequel before doing anything other than scribbling some notes for said sequel. I will not jinx it by saying in public what it is. I already have quite enough of a tendency towards stories heading in a completely different direction to that planned, and I don't want to encourage my subconscious by giving it a title to make irrelevant.