poor little island

[rinue]

In my attempt to come up with a title for the now-finished novel, I have accidentally written a poem simply because of how I grouped a few of the options:

Lonely Island
Gathered Here Today
Above an Empty Ocean

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Poor little island.

(Incidentally, I don't think any of these are great titles for the book, and in fact the current front-runner, also not great, is A Long Summer Waiting for Fall.)

ETA: I think I'm going with The Sifting Floor for now.

Comments

[achates.livejournal.com]

I'd be bothered by "Lonely Island" basically just because of the rap group of the same name. Also, "A Long Summer Waiting for Fall" is incidentally kinda freaky to me because I as a writer immediately think "why isn't it 'waiting for the fall'???" Where's the "the"???!!! This is hardly helpful, but I don't know that I'd be the most helpful person in title selection since I suck at it.

[rinue.livejournal.com]

I hesitate to point out that "waiting for fall" is a perfectly acceptable and normal construction, much like "waiting for winter" or "waiting for spring." Waiting for The Fall pretty much assumes that at some point summer plans to get kicked out of the garden of Eden, thus losing its state of innocence.

[achates.livejournal.com]

Oh no. I know it's an acceptable construction. I was saying that given that I know it's a horror novel my brain went "but they're going to fall! It's a double meaning! Why is she being coy? Is she trying to trick me?"

It was an irrational reaction, I know, since that's not what you were going for.