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I’m not that great at figuring out titles.\u00a0 It seems that with every project, I agonize for days to find the perfect title, only to settle for something that sounds reasonably good.<\/p>\nI’m not that great at figuring out titles.\u00a0 It seems that with every project, I agonize for days to find the perfect title, only to settle for something that sounds reasonably good.<\/p>\n
Worlds Away from Home <\/em>is no exception.\u00a0 Even though it was better than the previous title (Hero in Exile<\/em>), I never really felt wowed by it.<\/p>\n So now that I’m midway through the third draft, I figure it’s time to fix this problem.\u00a0 For those of you who’ve read it, I’m hoping you can help me out with suggestions; and for those of you who can’t, maybe you can tell me which ones sound cool and which ones sound lame.<\/p>\n Here are some of my ideas so far:<\/p>\n Dome and Desert, Sand and Stars I don’t really know, though.\u00a0 I’d like to throw in a reference to the Temple of a Thousand Suns, but there’s already a famous book<\/a> with the “thousand suns” phrase.\u00a0 I really like the phrases “dome and desert” and “sand and stars,” but when I throw them together it doesn’t really seem to get across Jalil and Mira’s storylines.\u00a0 Then again, I don’t know if any title could.<\/p>\n Anyhow, if you have any ideas, please toss them my way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m not that great at figuring out titles.\u00a0 It seems that with every project, I agonize for days to find the perfect title, only to settle for something that sounds reasonably good. Worlds Away from Home is no exception.\u00a0 Even though it was better than the previous title (Hero in Exile), I never really felt… Continue reading In search of a new title<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44],"tags":[199,373],"class_list":["post-5190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ds","tag-questions","tag-titles","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1lI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5190"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5196,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions\/5196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThrough Sand and Stars
\nBeyond a Thousand Suns
\nBeyond the Caves of Babylon<\/em><\/p>\n