Tuesday, 7 January 2014

Original story musings

Hello!

First things first, I want to apologise to you guys for my lack of Fanfiction updates lately. It's just that I've been working very hard on my original story and I'm not good at multitasking - not when it comes to writing, anyway.

That being said, I'm looking for a title for my original story. Those of you who know me also know that I am absolutely horrible at coming up with titles - whether for a chapter, a story, or an essay or article for uni - so I thought I might ask for your help. I'll give you a summary of the story (no spoilers) and you just... tell me the first thing that comes to mind, okay?

Summary:
There's him - Xav Gauchi. An only child and city boy with loving parents who would give him the world if they could. His father is an important advisor to the King and Xav will most likely follow in his footsteps one day, but first he wants to travel around the land to see everything he has only ever dreamt of seeing, which his parents are supportive of.
And there's her - Cenna Torell. She has two brothers and a sister, her father is a renowned businessman and she is arranged to be married to a Lord; but in reality she's in a secret relationship with the boy she really loves. She has big dreams, but she knows that those will most likely never come true.
When Xav meets Cenna, years later, she is trapped in a marriage with an abusive husband and she's completely broken. He vows that he will do everything he can to fix her; but Cenna has secrets, and she's not the only one. Helping Cenna comes with a price - but people in love do strange things, which means that Xav is willing to pay that price... whatever it may be.

Well, wasn't that nice and vague? :)
I'm toying with a few titles - Bruised, Broken & Healed, for example; or Never too late. Or I could go with something deeper - Stained Glass Hearts is a title I read somewhere and quite liked... but I'm not sure. So... please let me know in a comment?

I'm really loving working on this story, and I'm hoping to be able to finish and publish it somewhere this year. So far it's about 71 000 words and 100 pages in Microsoft Word, and I think it will end up being somewhere between 100 000 and 150 000 words, but I'm not sure yet. I'm working on it.

I'm actually kind of proud of myself for keeping it so firmly under wraps. Usually when I'm working on a story, I want to send it to as many people as possible as soon as possible; but since I'm actually planning on publishing this one as a book, it felt like I was jinxing it if I did that. So far two people are following the story, as in, I send them updates the moment I finish editing a chapter; two other people are still going to read it; and one other person knows the entire storyline, including the spoilers - which is mostly because I named one of the characters in the book after her and I couldn't resist letting her know ^_^.

Anyway, I'll just stop my rambling now and go write some more. Thank you so much for reading, I really appreciate it; and please let me know what you think of the title issue!

Maddy

1 comment:

  1. Hi!
    I love your rambling. ^_^
    I don't know, read this, never commented...
    Did you choose a title already?
    Btw, if I'm that 'one person' I feel honored, I do feel that anyways. :)

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