The Big Kitteh

The big kitteh has been back in the yard a few times over the past week or so. The video is somethings good, sometimes bad... I'll fully admit to being a bit freaked out by this. I mean, it's just a bobcat, but it still freaks me out that it's out there, in the night.

Part of it is fear for my cats, who are indoor only, but ya know?

@#%($!!! Titles

I don't know how people find titles for their books. This remains a total mystery to me.

I have written three full length novels.

One is self-published on amazon, it has a title because a friend who read it suggested an excellent one.

Two are sitting on my harddrive unpublished because I cannot for the freaking life of me find a title for either of them, and no "Charles and Jaime" or "Melissa and Jonathan" isn't going to cut it.

I have no idea how to synthesize the feeling, the essence of either of these stories into a title, and as a result, I can't seem to move forward with either.

It's driving me nuts.

Contrast to when I was writing fanfiction: often I started with the title, or a phrase and wrote a story around that (phrase "Sirius Black has become a liability" led to _Liability_). I never had a problem, titles came easily, cementing themselves to the story without effort.

Not so much with these two novels. The first one (C&J) I'm not fussed about. It is older and needs some major revisions. The newer one, I want to move forward with. It's been read by three people, all three have been positive and one who doesn't know me beyond a twitter handle suggested I start thinking about 'querying', which I guess it when you try to get an agent... but I can't do that without a freaking title and I seem to be stuck on that. I've asked my sister -one of my three readers- and she's as titleless as I am.

Ugh. I'm frustrated. I need to come up with a plan and I'm not having any luck.

OMG, IDEA! I could upload my whole novel to ChatGPT/Bing and ask it to come up with a title.....