Lines composed in an internet cafe in BFE, Colorado...

So I'm sitting here working on Dreams, which is going pretty well, and because it's going well, I need something else to be neurotic about. So I'm poking the title.

This book has been Dreams of Shreds & Tatters since its inception back in 2003. Mostly I like it--it should give people familiar with Mythos stuff a clue as to the contents, and warn everyone else Caution: May contain dream sequences, or scenes processed in a factory that also processes dream sequences. And it gives me the Noun with Prepositional Phrase construction I like so (Prayers to Broken Stone, The King of Moths, A Dirge in Yellow).

The other possibility is Orpheus Falling, since the book is full of Orphic journeys and maenads, and Blake wants Greek titles for all his chapters--anamnesis, katabasis, apostasia, etc. (I also considered Orpheus Drowning, but apparently that's a wincest fic. :P )

What do you think?

[Poll #1254279]

Smut is the little death that brings...err, never mind

So, I just wrote 914 words of smut (sans tentacles), whilst sitting here enduring the most awful pop radio imaginable because I didn't bring headphones. This smut belongs in Dirge--now I just have to finish Dreams and write the intervening books so I can get to Dirge and write its non-smutty bits. (I'm glad the poll is telling me to keep Dreams, since they go so well together.) I'm rather fond of this smut.

And now I'm freezing, and have been here for five hours, so possibly I should go back to the house for a while and work on the actual book I'm revising. Which sadly has very little smut.

(no subject)

Dreams, which is still Dreams sayeth the all-mighty LJ poll

28,301 / 75,100 (37.7%)

Next up, the zombie attack that needs to be totally overhauled. Why doesn't this book have any smut?