Santa in June
November 24, 2008
I’ve been exploring ideas for a new title for the book and this process is fascinating. “The Lost navigator of Sevilla” is a contender – as are: “The Navigator’s Invention” “The Navigator’s Deceit” and “Horizon of Sanity.” Today, I’m rather fond of THE NAVIGATOR’S INVENTION. In the meantime, I haven’t quite let go completely. I drift to the book. I become suddenly and viciously protective of my characters and nobody is even attacking them. I will hear a piece of music that is “the” perfect soundtrack for the movie of the book, and find myself weepy at a red light. Okay. Enough. Enough. Santa Claus is in therapy. I’m working on a Christmas card story (Something I have done for many, many years) called: “Santa in June.” Basically, a conversation between Santa and his analyst at a condo in Hawaii. Ha!
4 Comments
1. mary had this to say: Nov 25, 2008 ~ 12:15 ~ #
on Woody Allen and therapy:
Allen tells New York magazine, “People always tease me. They say, look at you, you went for so much psychoanalysis and you’re so neurotic, you wind up marrying a girl so much younger than you. You don’t like to go through tunnels. You don’t like to stand near the drain in the shower. But I could also say to them, I’ve had a very productive life. I’ve worked very hard, I’ve never fallen prey to depression. I’m not sure I could have done all of that without being in psychoanalysis. People say to me, ‘It’s just a crutch,’ and exactly what I need at this point in my life is a crutch.”
2. Thomas had this to say: Nov 27, 2008 ~ 09:40 ~ #
Mary,
I love Woody Allen! Great quote.
I like the idea of analysis. I’m exploring this right now. Part research…part just for me….
Thomas
3. Thomas had this to say: Nov 27, 2008 ~ 09:43 ~ #
Today, the title I’m playing with is simply:
“The Strait”
Because: the Strait of Gibraltar plays a big part in the book. And because the main character is in “sad straits”....
(strait –noun
Often, straits. (used with a singular verb) a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.
Often, straits. a position of difficulty, distress, or need: Ill and penniless, he was in sad straits indeed.
affording little space; confined in area.)