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I mean, I get that naming a fic for a line from a song is pretty much The Done Thing so it would be fine to do it, but come on, I don’t want another long unwieldy acronym. Gonna Make Me A Home Out In The Wind would be a fucking terrible title from that standpoint. I like it, it’s poignant, but fuck, I’m not going to be GMMAHOITW. That’s fucking terrible. A Home In The Wind? AHITW? Maybe? Still not great.
(The whole song is beautiful– here’s a test, here’s a link to it in Google Play, does it let you listen to it? It’s called I Was Young When I Left Home, and it’s beautiful, it’s achingly sad, and good and long so you can work up a good cry, and also, there’s a video on YouTube I’ll link to later of Oscar Isaac doing an extremely faithful cover of it, and you’re welcome, so go Google that now or wait for me to post it, it’s up to you.– anyway, the whole song is beautiful but that bit about making a home out in the wind because you can’t go home, that’s the most poignant part for me, but it’s just not excerptable like that.)
I want to come up with a title so I can start tagging things because I am aware that I have a lot of people now interested in this fucking thing and if I can actually tag it consistently and in such a way that people can find it, both I and they will be much happier when I actually post it and someone then actually gets to read it, instead of having seen some of the preliminary materials and said “oh that looks interesting” and then nobody can find it to read it. So the first thing there is a title.
But man oh man, every title I come up with is minimum six words and I’d promised myself a good pithy three-word maximum title here, and it’s just not happening. *grumble*
THREE WORDS MAX. C’mon! You can do this, B.
On the other hand, with no supervision at work today, I may be well-positioned to actually get something done. I feel like I’ve been writing the climactic action scene for about 84 years at this point and I just– who else is going to throw a blaster bolt with the Force, now? Come on. At whom? And what are those windows made of? Do I know? There’s a character just lying on the floor, uninjured but just out of fucks to give, and I swear he’s there for a reason, but it’s really looking like I forgot about him– and can I just end the scene by saying “oh then Rey showed up and killed them all” and not showing it? Probably not.
Probably not.
I saw above me, that endless skyway
I can’t call the story That Endless Skyway, that has no fucking relation to fucking anything. I’ve got a whole theme of songs about flying, because duh, Poe sings them all the damn time except when he’s depressed which he is through the whole story so oh, he actually just whistles in one scene and that’s it, but it’s plot-significant.
The other song that gets used as a code is The False True Lover and that’s a terrible fucking title. (Actually that’s the line, but the song is more usually called “Fair And Tender Ladies” which is not only a bad title it’s actually completely unrepresentative of the story, there are literally zero ladies of any kind of fair or tender persuasion; Poe’s the closest you’d come and he misses the key mark of the noun there. Also depends how you define “fair”.)
Ughhhh sorry sorry, especially to all you new followers, sometimes after prolonged bouts of writing the brain tends to come a little unglued in crucial ways.
I mean, I get that naming a fic for a line from a song is pretty much The Done Thing so it would be fine to do it, but come on, I don’t want another long unwieldy acronym. Gonna Make Me A Home Out In The Wind would be a fucking terrible title from that standpoint. I like it, it’s poignant, but fuck, I’m not going to be GMMAHOITW. That’s fucking terrible. A Home In The Wind? AHITW? Maybe? Still not great.
(The whole song is beautiful– here’s a test, here’s a link to it in Google Play, does it let you listen to it? It’s called I Was Young When I Left Home, and it’s beautiful, it’s achingly sad, and good and long so you can work up a good cry, and also, there’s a video on YouTube I’ll link to later of Oscar Isaac doing an extremely faithful cover of it, and you’re welcome, so go Google that now or wait for me to post it, it’s up to you.– anyway, the whole song is beautiful but that bit about making a home out in the wind because you can’t go home, that’s the most poignant part for me, but it’s just not excerptable like that.)
I want to come up with a title so I can start tagging things because I am aware that I have a lot of people now interested in this fucking thing and if I can actually tag it consistently and in such a way that people can find it, both I and they will be much happier when I actually post it and someone then actually gets to read it, instead of having seen some of the preliminary materials and said “oh that looks interesting” and then nobody can find it to read it. So the first thing there is a title.
But man oh man, every title I come up with is minimum six words and I’d promised myself a good pithy three-word maximum title here, and it’s just not happening. *grumble*
THREE WORDS MAX. C’mon! You can do this, B.
On the other hand, with no supervision at work today, I may be well-positioned to actually get something done. I feel like I’ve been writing the climactic action scene for about 84 years at this point and I just– who else is going to throw a blaster bolt with the Force, now? Come on. At whom? And what are those windows made of? Do I know? There’s a character just lying on the floor, uninjured but just out of fucks to give, and I swear he’s there for a reason, but it’s really looking like I forgot about him– and can I just end the scene by saying “oh then Rey showed up and killed them all” and not showing it? Probably not.
Probably not.
I saw above me, that endless skyway
I can’t call the story That Endless Skyway, that has no fucking relation to fucking anything. I’ve got a whole theme of songs about flying, because duh, Poe sings them all the damn time except when he’s depressed which he is through the whole story so oh, he actually just whistles in one scene and that’s it, but it’s plot-significant.
The other song that gets used as a code is The False True Lover and that’s a terrible fucking title. (Actually that’s the line, but the song is more usually called “Fair And Tender Ladies” which is not only a bad title it’s actually completely unrepresentative of the story, there are literally zero ladies of any kind of fair or tender persuasion; Poe’s the closest you’d come and he misses the key mark of the noun there. Also depends how you define “fair”.)
Ughhhh sorry sorry, especially to all you new followers, sometimes after prolonged bouts of writing the brain tends to come a little unglued in crucial ways.
