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3 Ways to Design the Perfect Title

Roger Colby, Novelist's avatarWriting Is Hard Work

terrible titleMy current project is nearing completion (at least the rough draft is).  Throughout the project the novel has taken on several title changes, namely because the plot of the novel shifted, the thematic focus changed or what drove the protagonist phase-shifted.

The novel I have written is a story set far in humanity’s future. The Terrans left their home solar system over five hundred years ago after an ecological disaster on a system-wide scale.  They boarded world-ships, trekked out to a far reaching cluster of star systems, but on the way the worst of them took charge, so that when they arrived they became conquerors and brutal dictators…in some cases demigods.  The novel is set 100 years after an uprising, successfully won by the four sentient species that called the Five Rims home.  The small number of Terrans who helped the indigenous species free themselves were given a home on one…

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About The Owl Lady

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Viv Drewa is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan, her passion has always been writing. She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather's escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the "Polish American Journal" as "From the Pages of Grandfather's Life" and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story. Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron's 'The Times Herald", and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter "Thumb Prints." She also has a business promoting authors. Owl and Pussycat Book Promotions. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Port Huron, Michigan.

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