Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Book Titile, Reminiscence

It only took me from October of 2009 to find a title for my book.  I started with "Dear John" only to be told there's a movie called that.  Then I moved on to, "P.S. I love you" only to find out that exists too.  I wanted the title to be relative to a written letter.  I gave up for a while and the other day in my tiredness I got silly when I Googled salutations.  My friends and i came up with, screw you, don't call me - I'll call you, F off and die and a few other choice fun ways to end a letter.  I must have looked at 250 different salutations til my eyes crossed and nothing seemed to fit.  I went home and later put in my status bar on Facebook, Reflecting.  I actually was at that point.    It wasn't til the next day when i was playing around with my Facebook and saw my old status, Reflecting.  I was looking back at events in my life--my past.  Everything just clicked at that moment.  My main character in the book, Effie, spends a great deal of her time learning how to control visions of others pasts by touching objects that belong to them or touching them directly.  A gift and a curse. The visions are like memories to Effie. Then the name of the book was clear to me.  Reminiscence!  I just knew it was right and it felt good.  It only took me one year and nine months.   Nothing good ever comes easy so it must be good!

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