I'm writing A Book About My Life and My struggles and everything I have Gone threw In my Life All the Up And Downs And Struggles and Lose's In My Life.
My Book Is About when I was Little And growing Up And When I Had My children and the Loss Of My Children , The Loss Of My Father etc.
The Problem I Am Having Is Nameing The book And I'm Looking for Ideas on What The Name Of My Book Should Be And I'm coming to you My gather Friends For Any Idea What so Ever On a Name For It....
Please Help Me Name My Book......
The book Isnt all Sad.. My childhood Was Great It was from the time I lost My Children And My father and On. I Guess Its Good times And A Lot Of Bad times
Thank you
Jennifer
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"How goes My Life"
or maybe
Life's ups and down
>>> Here I Go Again
From a Freudian standpoint, I would suggest Capital Letters...your writing style reflects the relative positions of Upper Case and lower case letters as a metaphor for the ups and downs of life. (I don't mean to sound critical or as if I am poking fun, I am very serious. This might resonate with you at least as a working title...but then I am somewhat mystically bent.)
i'll try 2 come up w/ somthin good :)
I just finished a great book, it is called "A lot of Good Times, A Lot of Bad times." You must read this.
I really agree with the others, Jennifer. When you write the book something is going to jump out at you and you know that will be the title of the book.
I find that after writing one page of the event that was the catalyst for my emotions I usually find a title of somesorts. Yet again, I do have a post titled "no working title as of yet." Keep working hard.
Dawn L.
Personally I've found it better to write the book than talk about writing the book.
If the urge to write is strong enough, really gets to you, WRITE! There is no substitute. YOU have to do the work.
It sounds like you have plenty of ideas. Julia Cameron is one of my favourite 'writing' people. Read her THE RIGHT TO WRITE now. It will show you how easy it is, rather than tell you.
Then you must be prepared to change, change your habits so you INCLUDE the writing habit. You OWE it to your ideas to get them down on paper. SCRIBBLE!
Next, DON'T TELL ANYONE you're writing a book. Put THAT energy into the actual graft of DOING IT! Never boast you're 'doing a novel.' You may change that goal, you may decide to write something else, you may even decide to think again. DON'T TELL.
Julia is one of many who recommends Morning Pages. The method is, every morning, get up half an hour before usual and WRITE all you can for, say, about half an hour. Start small and work up to that time if necessary. This is the time to scribble ANYTHING which crosses your mind, the dreams, the ideas, the fantasies, the literal ramblings which you may not even want to share with others. This would be YOUR notebook, YOUR ideas, YOUR time.
The next stage is to scribble. (Huh? Again? Yup! You asked!!!!) Start doing a bit of Life Writing, write about things which you remember, things which make you smile, things which moved you at the time, anything, ANYTHING, EVERYTHING.
It is only by building up your pieces that you can then move on to the next stage. You need the material to be able to push it into some sort of shape, to edit and change, to smooth out the wrinkles which re-reading might turn up. (Oh, yes they will!)
Another thing, probably one of the most important ones, is to be prepared to do a second draft. Be prepared to do a THIRD. A FOURTH, if necessary. The book will take its own time. The pain will be YOURS, but the credit, the satisfaction, the PLEASURE will be YOURS too! The most important thing is to GIVE YOURSELF TIME.
Here's a review of one of the most obvious choices for a writer:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?memberId=163120&articleId=281474977012274
Pick up a pen and DO IT! Writing a book is about sitting down and DOING THE GRAFT!
Now, to you...
It's the same advice, DO it but don't tell. Go for it, but leave the title until the work has been formed, unless you *click* think of one, or two, or more. You'll DO it!
One example of where to go is, like me, get going on a Uni course for Creative Writing. I'm on the third year and, although I've been writing prose and poetry for years (I've performed poetry in London, Edinburgh Festival and many other places), I've actually LEARNT a lot.
A few years back, I wrote the first 18,000 words of a novel, then put it aside, in order to learn more, about 'threads', about NOT using cliches, about using new metaphors and a whole lot more.
Go get 'em!
Thank you for posting this to the Gimme 10!!! Group