Wax Wings

As promised, I'm (finally) getting around to posting a blog about my own writing project! Just took me a couple of weeks to remember, haha. Although I only remembered last minute so this post won't be as well prepared as my future ones will (hopefully) be. But none the less, I forge on ahead!

Recently I have been contemplating the name of my story. Well okay, I was actually thinking about my band. In the past week or so I've grown tired of my band sitting around and doing nothing, so I mailed them all (originials and our newest member- a singer) and figured out a good time for us to meet. Except in doing so we learned that one of our members couldn't come. Ever. Fortunately our new singer is also a fantastic piano player, so she can fill the shoes of our lost pianist. That means we have a drummer, a pianist/singer, and a guitar player. Always working to bring things to their full potential, I am now considering stepping down from my guitar position to maybe play some simple bass. I'm not exactly julliyard material or anything. I know a decent guitar player who might be willing to take over. My main job would be to find/provide music and organize things.

Yes I know I said this would be about my writing project. But I think I also mentioned it would be about my life. Either way it shouldn't matter much, since this whole band story ties into what I planned on making this blogpost about.

Names.

The original trio (myself, the drummer and pianist) named ourselves Clockwork. But now that we've had so much switching around I'm thinking, isn't that too... mechanical? If it was all created on the computer, maybe. But it's not. I want us to have a creative name with some p-zaz in it, you know what I mean?

My current project is called Spindles. I've been writing a little more recently as it's just passed the 60,000 (word) marker. I never really intended for it to be officially named Spindles, and I still don't. I want something interesting, eye catching, short and memorable. Something that related to myths/legends/fairytales. One name I came up with was Wax Wings, referring to the story of Icarus and Daedelus. But then I realized, what does that have to do with my story? Salem isn't particularly arrogant. In fact he's rather cold and calculating. So maybe instead that would work for a band name.
But I'm still without a story name. I think I'll have to research more into greek myths and see if there's anything that catches my eye.

All of this mythology talk... I'm kind of hooked on myths right now. I blame my english teacher. She has us studying them. But I love myths, so it's okay.

Time to go research!
MJ