Evenfall, series names, editing, and oneshots (whew!)

(Ais post.. in case the length didn't give it away whut?)

So, first of all-- we have a tentative title for the first book: Evenfall. Although I'm sure you all know this already since I said it about a bazillion times on the site + forum in random places.

Titles are pretty odd to consider and as for why we went with this, there were a number of reasons. We appreciate all the reader suggestions thrown out there, and it actually helped narrow it down. Some of them seemed like great words with great meanings but they just didn't sound right, and some others led me on a fun synonym craze until I eventually ended up with Evenfall.

There's this whole explanation of the meaning but what it comes down to? Evenfall is the time of day directly after the sunset. I like the image that provokes-- the idea of going into the night, a time of transition. Since a lot of that book is about good/bright things mixed with bad/dark, and it's pretty much a constant state of transition for at least the two main characters, and probably other stuff I forgot-- overall, it has the right idea. It works well in relation to the other series titles: Evenfall, it's just getting dark, Afterimage, like the memory of something vivid, Fade... well. I won't say much about Fade until that book comes out. ;p

And, in that progression all of them fit with the series title -- In the Company of Shadows. Also, it was going to drive me nuts if it wasn't a one-word title to match the other two. Especially with our long as hell series name. (In Ais' world, 5 words is LONG AS HELL!!!111 PS: Ais lives in a dramatic world)

What's interesting is all of this is pretty coincidental and arbitrary, like freaking everything in this series. You'd think we were all bad ass and planned things ahead of time, but no. It was pretty much like this the whole way:

Sonny: We need a name for the story ((when we didn't know it would become a series))
me: Here are some titles of poetry I've written! They're crap!
Sonny: Uhhh... In the Company of Shadows! SEARCH OVER!
me: Uh ok I guess it's okay for now?

me: We need a title for the second book
Sonny: What about Afterimage?
me: GOLD!

Sonny: We need a title for the third book
me: What about Fade?
Sonny: DONE!

me: We need a title for the first book
Sonny: I don't know
me: I don't know
(time passes)
me: Evenfall? It's kind of okay?
Sonny: WE'RE ROLLING WITH IT
me: I guess it's okay for now...


Good God. The title of the fourth book may be interesting XD I think we should name it FLASH. Or SUNRISE. Or DAYBREAK MUTHAFUCKKAAAAAA (<-- that last choice is clearly the best except it's two words so I think we'll have to invent the world DAYFUCKA to get the appropriate idea across while keeping with the time-honored and vry srs naming conventions of this series. *nods sagely*)

(Also by the way, we did actually put thought into why Afterimage, Fade, and Evenfall work for the book plots XD But it was, filtered down, basically my rendition of our Srs Decisions)


So anyway...

Speaking of Evenfall, we're still editing the Bad News Bears chapters. Which are Bad News Bears because they're Bad News Writing and Bad News Plotholes. I'm slowing the process down like whoa because I'm discovering that writing early!Boyd with early!Vivienne is a little more awkward and difficult than I expected.

It's hard to think in terms of Boyd's mindset when the series started. Not So-Hard-I-Can't-Write-It, but This-Boy-Has-No-Emotion-Or-Thoughts. Also, Vivienne is pretty hardcore. I think a lot of people think she hasn't changed much, but she's always in the background. And years have passed. She progresses too, in her own way, but it's nothing that will ever be in the foreground. And she doesn't have as dramatic of changes as others. (*coughsinboydcough*)

And to finish my post filled with random, these oneshots are fun to write and hopefully people will enjoy them. We, once again, started with an idea and then realized some characters would do things we weren't expecting or some things should be expanded. Subsequently, it went from a plan of like, I don't know, 7 oneshots? To now around 27. LOLZ.

Not all of them are FEATURE LENGTH CHAPTERS, though. They'll range from a few pages to large multi-parters, depending on the topic. And that's exactly why we had to do it this way, because if we'd tried to formulate the storyline between Afterimage and Fade into another book, it would've sucked hardcore and we probably would've gotten annoyed with always having to keep everything cohesive like it has to be in a book. And things would've been lost in the translation.

And now once again it's occurred to me that I've written about 1000 pages on 3 topics and it's time for sleeps for Ais. =(