Yet another reason I’m glad I decided to jump into HTTS even though I’m still working on my revision.
Way back when I finished creating my new scenes in preparation for the block revision I ended up with unwieldy titles like FO-19 OM 39a/b and OM 148/151 or FO-1a OM 27. These were indispensable for locating the parts of the first draft that needed rearranging, but not so great to look at.
Can I have names? Please?
I have a very polite muse and he knows to ask nicely. I have enough Sturm and Drang in my life. Writing must remain my sanctuary.
“Of course you may.” I said, “But no dithering. Give me your best names quick, or I’ll assign boring ones.”
Scenes titles bubbled up like fizz in a freshly poured beer, and an hour or so later I had a list of scenes that looked like they could tell a story.
From this lesson I found out that I what I was doing straight from my gut was, in fact, doing it right! I’ll have to learn to trust my instincts more often.
As for scene titles, they were often given to me by the main character, whose snarky sense of irony is a mirror of my own. Sometimes my love for double meanings came along for the ride.
And, since this is MY blog, I’ll take the liberty of listing them all:
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The Sky Loved the Sea
The Serpent’s Coils
Jack Daniels
He’s Just a Boy
A Gathering Storm
Causality
Stuart’s Shadow
Sapphire Eyes
Broken Wings
Instrument Failure
Get me Out of Here
Punch Buggy Blue
A Bad Dream?
Play your Music, Man
The Price for Sight
Emerald Green
Smoking Kills
Plan B and Tears
Requiem of Rain
Rescue
I am Real
Overcome
Unarmed
One Way Ticket
Welcome to LA
Remember Be Here Now
Don’t Stop Dreaming
A Message
She met Libra
The Dreamless Son
Gallery Reunion
What the Hell?
“She’s With Me”
No Place Like Home
New Strings
A Silver Thread
Dream Dancer’s Son
A Warning
Fish Tacos and Coronas
Into his Breath…
Danny
A Bad Trip
The Key of Sea
Escape
Staying Apart
Vows
Till Breath do us Part
Libra Returns
Draw Him In
Breathplay
Toujours
To the Night
One Soul per Person, Please
The Pool
X Marks the Spot
Mortal
Tears and Rain
Oxygen
The Beach House
Turn off the Switch
The Sea Loved the Sky (reprise)
The Shadow Stopped
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I’ll let my readers guess which ones qualify as candy bar scenes, and which ones inserted themselves as I was writing…er, revising.
