Patient ladies

Patient ladies

peep over magazines –

guessing where it aches

Eureka

After weeks and weeks of pondering, I think I may have just found the perfect title for my new book! And the publisher likes it too! Eureka! As I ‘m not yet quite sure, I won’t share it yet, but it has something to do with the picture above. 🙂

 

The quest for a good title

Writing a novel is a piece of cake compared to finding a halfway decent title for it. Well, it’s not, really, but that’s how I’m feeling right now.

Ideally, the title for my new book will be catchy, marketable and easy to remember. It also needs to reflect at least one of the themes in the book (du-uh). And in a perfect world it will also sound just a little bit tongue in cheek. Oh, but it can’t be too long, of course.

So, after weeks and weeks of pondering, I have come to a series of crucial decisions: Firstly, I have lowered my standards from “brilliant” to “strong”. Next, I have lowered them again to “good”. Right now, “acceptable” would make me downright euphoric. What’s next? Printable?

 

The blue heron

as the wind rises

the blue heron stirs nothing

but his reflection

The art of conversation

© sxc

‘So… how have you been?’

ten years after high school

old sweethearts

reach for the same cereal

and for the same sentences

Ten years after the wedding

married ten years –

the only thing that still fits

are cufflinks

Parading the new pram

© sxc

married one year

parading the brand new pram –

neatly in the pass

A weathered frigate

© sxc

a weathered frigate
turns its flank laden with guns –
on a shampoo bottle

Ink black clouds

ink black clouds

swirl around each other –

in a raindrop

I just finished my second novel

I just finished my second novel! So here’s a picture of a happy cat.

Now, on to the fiftieth reread, just to make sure.