Striking All the Wrong Chords
Jul. 7th, 2010 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
parallax23After having started my summer novel for the umpteenth time (you can see the failed first draft here), I'm still hitting all the wrong chords for this story. I've got a plot I adore, characters and subplots.
BUT I can't get a title to stick. AND the main character's name still hasn't come to me.
Usually I'm really good with titles and I never take long to come up with one, so this doesn't bode well for the story I guess. Also, the main character has undergone several name changes and nothing sounds right. I can't write using a dummy name because... well, I need it to sound right in my head or else I get stuck going 'but the name doesn't fit' every couple of sentences... Anyway, I'll figure it out. I always do. I have managed to narrow it down to:
Deirdre - tragic heroine in Celtic mythology, the name literally means "sorrow"
Amara - "everlasting" or "bitterness"
Delyth - "neat and pretty"
Azurine - "blue sky"
Delyn - "blessed ring"
Ophelia - "assistance"
or Seren (no the 'a' isn't missing, it's "seh-ren") - "star"
BUT I can't get a title to stick. AND the main character's name still hasn't come to me.
Usually I'm really good with titles and I never take long to come up with one, so this doesn't bode well for the story I guess. Also, the main character has undergone several name changes and nothing sounds right. I can't write using a dummy name because... well, I need it to sound right in my head or else I get stuck going 'but the name doesn't fit' every couple of sentences... Anyway, I'll figure it out. I always do. I have managed to narrow it down to:
Deirdre - tragic heroine in Celtic mythology, the name literally means "sorrow"
Amara - "everlasting" or "bitterness"
Delyth - "neat and pretty"
Azurine - "blue sky"
Delyn - "blessed ring"
Ophelia - "assistance"
or Seren (no the 'a' isn't missing, it's "seh-ren") - "star"