We have a fantastic cover image, and we want a fantastic cover to go with it. To which end, we need to be able to create the cover well before November’s meeting, so… we need a title.
The numbers in brackets indicate the number of people who have voted for each particular title. But what we’re voting on now is “sets of titles.” and the numbers in each header indicate how many votes each “set” has received – not the same as how many votes titles within the set have received. Once we’ve chosen a winning set (or a couple of sets), Sheila will research variations on the titles, starting with the one that received most votes in the set, to see which titles work – e.g. which titles might be found by people looking for literary anthologies, which are only going to be seen by people seeking self-help books, and which point are found by people planning camping trips, etc. So… please look at the sets of titles below, and email admin with your favorites.
Also, please note, I’ve added a new “set” as more suggestions have come in. If you want to change your vote, just let me know!
Suggested title-sets so far (with numbers of votes so far):
- Challenge 8
- Challenging Times (1)
- Change and Challenge (2)
- Writing through Challenging Times (1)
- Challenging Moments, Threads of Hope (4)
- Challenges Outside the Gate (1)
- Apart and Together 10
- Coming Together, Falling apart (2)
- Coming Together in a Time of Falling Apart (4)
- Falling Apart – Coming Together (3)
- Falling Apart Together (2)
- Coming Together While Falling Apart (1)
- Journeys and Ways 6
- Finding Our Way Through Chaos (1)
- Making Our Way Through Chaos (1)
- Finding Our Way (3)
- Journey Through Chaos (7)
- Journeys Through Chaos (3)
- Our Heroes’ Journeys (1)
- Journey into the Sun (2)
- Journeys Beyond Chaos (2)
- Tribulations 1
- Word Tribulations (1)
- Trials and Tribu-Words (1)
- Tribulations and Unity (1)
- Waiting 5
- Waiting for the Smoke to Clear (4)
- Waiting for Locusts (4)
- Waiting While the World Falls Apart (1)
- Waiting for Tomorrow (1)
- Waiting for 2021 (1)
- Waiting for the Vaccine (1)
- Quirky 8
- Weaving with Stones (2)
- Everything but the Locusts (3)
- We’re Zoomed! We’re All Zoomed! (4)
- Doom, Gloom and Zoom (1)
- The Moon is a Friend (1)
- Gravitating to Wholeness (2)
Comments made on these titles:
- Might be nice to end the title on a positive note
- Journeys plural represents all our journeys
- Journey echoes the writing idea of the hero’s journey, and we’re all heroes
- Waiting for Tomorrow fits with Beyond Yesterday from last year
Please add your comments and suggestions in the comments!
Journey Into the Sun
Anthology by Portland writers mill
The Moon is a Friend
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Tribulations
Anthology by Portland Writers Mill
Gravitating to Wholeness
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Word Tribulations
Anthology of Portland Writers Mil
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Waiting For the Smoke to Clear
Anthology of Portland Writers Mill
Weaving With Stones
Anthology of Portland Writers Mill
Writing Through Difficult Times
Finding Our Way Through Chaos or
Making Our Way Through Chaos
Journeys Through Chaos: I really like this one because it implies the classic writers’ technique of telling the hero’s journey. And we are all heroes these days to someone, whether it be our family, our customers, and even ourselves. And we are all writers, telling someone’s story…
Do I put votes here? I vote for:
Coming Together in a Time of Falling Apart
Challenging Moments, Threads of Hope
I think both of those sound grand enough for titles and both express the positive vs. challenge.
My first choice: Journey Through Chaos
Three tie for my second choice:
We’re Zoomed! We’re All Zoomed!
Everything but the Locusts (These two lend humor to the times)
Waiting for the Smoke to Clear (this isn’t in the main list yet)
3rd: Finding Our Way
4th: Falling Apart–Coming Together
Everything But the Locusts is pithy and maybe even courageous-sounding, so I rather like this one. It’s got spunk and humor, and I like the sly reference to the Bible. (Although I think Las Vegas earlier this year was invaded by Locusts, so Everything But isn’t quite accurate. Still good, though.
I agree that Challenging Moments, Threads of Hope is a title that ends on a positive note, yet sums up nicely the difficult times in which we find ourselves. It is also an elegant title.
I like the theme of challenge but “moments” seems too limited for the trials of the year. Picking only one out of the theme categories, I prefer the quirky titles. I hadn’t known about the locusts in Vegas; now I prefer “Waiting for the Locusts” to “Everything but the Locusts” because of that new knowledge, when it comes to mentioning these insects.
I agree with Robin that perhaps “moments” is a little bit of a soft landing for all of the challenges each of us and the world has faced in 2020. On the other hand, “moments” has been used in a way to describe an edgier response. Such as “give me a moment” and “I’m having a moment here,” which are phrases that suggest a feeling of being overwhelmed and needing “time” to respond or having a bad day and needing “a moment to collect one’s self.” So it can have an edgier –perhaps even pithier deeper meaning than it’s literal meaning of 60 seconds or so… As for the locusts landing in Las Vegas, that did indeed happen earlier this spring and I thought it so appropriate to Vegas, a city that has often been compared to the Biblical Cities of Sodom & Gomorrah. Just ironic! Robin is probably right, since it did happen in 2020 that locusts landed in Las Vegas perhaps the title should be “Waiting for the Locusts…” Sidebar: Hopefully they never show up here in the Willamette Valley. They are very destructive creatures. Can you imagine what they would do to Bob’s Red Mill?
My favorite is Coming Together in a Time of Falling Apart and second is Journey through Chaos.
“Finding Our Way” is my favorite title.