What’s a good title?

That’s what I’m wondering right now. What should I call my book? When I was writing my first one, I didn’t have even any ideas for the title until something like the 15th chapter. And I needed two titles: one for the book and one for the series. I got them pretty late. And I know, I’m not remotely near the middle of my book here, but I’ve been researching it for a year and giving it so much thought that a title should be somewhere in my mind. It would also be useful if I could use the title instead of saying “my werewolf story” all the time.

So the day after tomorrow we start the project, writing at the very least half a page every single day in March. I know it’s going to be a challenge, because March happens to be when I start off at work again and uni begins as well. But I’m confident I’ll make it. Because writing is a sort of recreation for me. It’ll be fine. Actually, I don’t see why writing should be reserved to March only. I wrote a page yesterday and I’m gonna write something now. Somehow the scenes are starting to take shape at the beginning here.

Back again.

So. I have been taking books from the library, books I think could help me create the world. I got that one that tells the history of Bordeaux from 1500 to 1730 or something, which would have been great if it wasn’t in French. My French is not good at all.

The short biography of John Milton I have read says that he learned to write in a great style when he was studying in the university. Same goes about many other writers, like Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare and pretty much everybody else. Bot does it apply to today, too? I am in the university, so does that give me a chance to write better than others? Does it make me a qualified writer like Marlowe and Milton? I mean, no idea about those days, but today every idiot is in the university.

I am thinking these days. I am doing massive research. I am digging piles and piles of stuff. But in the end I will have to cut the most of what I have researched to make the story. I know, I know, this is the writer’s work, that is what we live for. It makes us informed about many things. I just don’t know where to even start with the story, what with all the research I made.

I suppose I should really just go on and start with the most obvious, the simplest story of them all: the one story that is already told. Jean Grenier.

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