The Indecision Tango (IWSG)
1st Wednesday of the month is the Insecure Writers Support Group blog hop. Wherein I post about the difficulties and joys of writing.
My writing is going fairly well. The rewrite is moving at a decent clip. Not as fast as it should be, but that's okay, I forgive me. However, I recently discovered two things about myself:
1. I can't make decisions
2. I'm terrible at naming things.
This is a bad combo. Whether it comes to character names, novel titles, or the simple name of a restaurant, I suck. I come up with long lists of terrible ideas, and then I can't narrow them down. So I find myself reaching for a lot of outside help which in turn makes me feel like a talentless hack. Aren't writers supposed to be creative? You may be thinking, "Oh Christina, you can't be that bad, can you?"
I named one of my characters Tiramisu. I'll let that sink in....
Obviously, I woke from my fugue state and changed it. But it took weeks of deliberation, discussion on Facebook because I wanted her name to be Anika, but I was worried people wouldn't pronounce it right. They wouldn't pronounce her name right in their head while they read the book and this was unacceptable to me. Basically, I'm a wackjob.
Finally I settled on a name, but then I had to change her surname because it no longer worked. That took a week of searching and pairing names together and requesting that my friends participate while I figured out the best one. Then, I couldn't figure out what to name a restaurant in my novel, so I turned to my creative friend, Jeannie, who came up with one for me. Then this past week, I've struggled and failed to come up with a name for my character's bridal shop.
Then yesterday, it occurred to me that I wrote the rough draft of my WIP back in 2009 and never titled it. Imagine having a four-year-old child that you never bothered naming. I'm becoming Holly Golightly now. So I tried to come up with a book title and each one has been worse than the last. I'm back to taking suggestions for the name of a novel that no one has read fully but me. See what I mean? I'm a hack. I wondering if I have to give my Facebook friends credit when the book gets published, since they're making all my decisions as I run to them for input.
Also it took me an hour to choose the image for this post.
Am I just a needy writer? Indecisive? Perhaps it's a bad case of atelophobia? You decide!*
*See what I did there? Huh? Shut up, I'm hilarious.
