Argh. Titles.

Titles are not my forte. I want a title for my Origins/Haven/Belong/and more series. No idea what it would be called.

Anyone, please, have any ideas at all? I would be so so grateful. So. So. Grateful.

Ivy Blossom random fact of the day

How Haven got its title.

I wrote Haven with the lyrics to the song it's based on, which is U2's 'Until the end of the world', written at the top. The entire fic was written in one document, with those lyrics before the fic.

The first line of that song is 'Haven't see you in quite a while.'

The first time word went to save the document, it prompted me to save the document as 'Haven'.

This is why I named the fic 'Haven', in spite of the fact that there is no Haven in Haven.

Ivy Blossom (other) random fact of the day

Belong.

The entire plot of Belong is just an attempt to make the R.E.M. song, 'Belong', make sense to me. I got the R.E.M. album Out of Time in 1991 and listened to it a lot. (I was at cadet camp, so it always kind of reminds me of the beach near Ipperwash and PT and H barracks.) I loved the song because it's so vague, but I really wanted to know what it was about.

I always imagined there was a science fiction story that went along with it.

So the plot of Belong is based on ( these lyrics: )

I think that pretty much sums it up. Haven is a songfic of U2's 'Until the End of the World'. Belong is a songfic of, well, R.E.M.'s 'Belong'. Origins has no song. *sniffs* The title 'Origins' is entirely utilitarian.

The new version of Haven, however, is a songfic for Michelle Branch, 'Goodbye to you'. Seriously. Listen to that. It's a perfect match. Perfect! Also 'All you wanted' and, for no reason that makes sense to anyone but me, Sting's 'Fields of Gold', the Eva Cassidy version.

Too much posting today. But. Character note/question.

Have you ever planned an event in a fic that you know you will only ever show from one, distant, point of view? And then...found yourself caught with a lot of detail about the relationship in question that you really can't ever expose, or, would never really have the chance to expose?

Rough explanation: basically. Draco and Pansy are together. (Pre-Origins.) Everyone knows that Draco and Pansy are together. One day Parvati is wandering around, maybe, say, coming back from the library, and spots Draco smooching with, let's say, Blaise. (Presuming for the moment that Blaise is a boy.) Parvati is shocked. Parvati completely spazzes out and tells her sister, who promptly tells her to grow the hell up. Parvati feels sick over the whole thing and just tries not to think about it. Padma thinks she's too cool for words and goes to tell Pansy. (random note: a lot of the women in HP have names that start with P.) Pansy gives her a steely look and threatens to throw her out of a tower window if she ever says anything at all about it to anyone ever again. Pansy, of course, already knows about it and has her own issues.

This sequence will never ever be told from Draco's point of view, as he is completely unaware that anyone knows about it.

And yet. In my head I have his complete train of thought on the subject at the time. I know all about the history between him and Blaise. But wouldn't it be cooler if I just let it go? Just have it observed? Wouldn't it make Draco more interesting, or would it make him less interesting?

I'm going to non-sympathetic Draco here. I tend to write him too sympathetically. For this fic I'm working on at the moment, I want Draco to be a total unknown quantity. So no Draco POVs. Do you think that would work? Or would it just be wierd?

Does this post even make sense?

Cicatrix Cycle

aunt_beast gave Origins/Haven/Belong/whatever a name. The Cicatrix Cycle. Doesn't that sound presumptious and cool?

Cicatrix: a healed over scar. Tell me that doesn't work.

Yeah. Heh. It doesn't matter for most people, but for NEW readers, well, they'll think I was organized from the beginning and gave it a proper title.