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Philippa East replied to the topic Controlling Idea / Downsizing in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 10 months ago
Exactly 🙂
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Tony Lyttle replied to the topic New title needed for 'Snatched' – help! in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 10 months ago
In the Nick of Time
Lost in Time
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John S Alty replied to the topic Titles in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 10 months ago
Tangled Web (A, The, What a, Weaving a,)
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John S Alty replied to the topic New title needed for 'Snatched' – help! in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 10 months ago
Time is sometimes described as a fourth dimension, so:
Fourth Dimension
The Fourth Dimension
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Squidge replied to the topic New title needed for 'Snatched' – help! in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 10 months ago
The time between?
Between times?
The Time Snatcher of London Towns?
A shadow of time… (working on from Jonathan’s suggestions)
A shadow in time?I really hate titles sometimes!;)
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Daedalus replied to the topic New title needed for 'Snatched' – help! in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 10 months ago
In the Shadow of the City
The City in Time’s Shadow
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Seagreen replied to the topic New title needed for 'Snatched' – help! in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 10 months ago
Thinking out loud here…
Daughter (Children?) of Shadows
Daughter of the Shadowland(s)
The Time Stealer’s …… (Adversary/Daughter/Enemy)
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KazG started the topic New title needed for 'Snatched' – help! in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 10 months ago
Yes, I’m blatantly copying @philippaeast with her Titles thread.
I must be a bit slow because I’ve also had the same feedback from my agent Danielle (that the story needs a new title) – and yet I didn’t think of asking you brilliant lot for help. So thanks @philippaeast for the inspo 🙂
Some of you have read ‘Snatched’ (thank you beloved…[Read more]
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KazG replied to the topic Titles in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 10 months ago
@alanr – just saw that I basically suggested the same as you!
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KazG replied to the topic Titles in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 10 months ago
I keep coming back to the words enmeshing/unmeshing. For me that feels really evocative of family tendrils, the way the brain works (especially in cases of forming, breaking and reforming connections). – it makes me think of a web and a net and a loosening of patterns. Don’t know how you might use it but I love that word!
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Daedalus replied to the topic Controlling Idea / Downsizing in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 10 months ago
I like that way of putting it. Helpful.
I haven’t seen ‘Downsizing’ but it sounds like a film that is a bit overloaded with ideas and ends up getting lost among them.
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Philippa East started the topic Controlling Idea / Downsizing in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 10 months ago
On the podcast I am obsessed with (storygrid.com), they refer to a story’s theme as the “controlling idea”. I like this way of putting it, because a good theme helps you control the unwieldy beast that most (draft) stories are.
A “controlling idea” might be something like “happiness comes through pursuing our true calling”, “money isn’t…[Read more]
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Philippa East replied to the topic Titles in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 10 months ago
Oh my goodness, guys, what great suggestions! I will check out those links too.
@Squidge, I’d love to take a look at your exercise if you can send it?
The focus for the book is about whether and how a family can truly reconcile after such a trauma, and what level of culpability a family must ultimately shoulder. Much time in the book is spent in…[Read more]
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Seagreen replied to the topic Titles in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 10 months ago
You talk about bonds and use the term ‘enmeshed’ so I’m going for The Untangling.
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Thea replied to the topic Titles in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 10 months ago
Hi Philippa, ‘Lost and Found?’ with or without the question mark, popped into my mind, I think because of the railway scene in your story. Perhaps if you simply included a question mark in your current title it would convey that the abduction is still haunting the family. Also, I really like Jonathan’s idea of using the number seven in the title.
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Thea replied to the topic The disclaimer jar – advice on attitude to one's writing in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 10 months ago
I haven’t either, Sandra! Though in my writing I try to adhere to the RUE rule and thus probably don’t explain enough.
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Barry Walsh posted an update 7 years, 10 months ago
Nice to be back among old friends and, hopefully, some new ones. About a hundred years ago, I wrote a novel. I’ve finally got to the end of another but it’s far from finished. Looking forward to reading some short stories.
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Good to know, Barry, we’ve been waiting for it! (For those Denizens who don’t know Barry, he wrote a fantastic, bittersweet coming of age novel set in the 1960s called The Pimlico Kid, which is well worth a read)
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Thank you Daeds. it’s certainly been a long time, something I might blog about one day. On second thoughts, it might not be such good read! I hope all goes well for you and I’m pleased to see your productivity in recent times.
Barry
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Squidge replied to the topic Titles in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 10 months ago
I like the ‘Here Ends…’, but what to say is ending.
…the Seven Years of Pain
…the Seven Years of Separation.
Why not something like Seven Years Apart or The seven years of separation. The End Begins Here…? Just playing now!I also wonder if some of the other themes are more relevant to the title? There are an awful lot of themes going…[Read more]
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