"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet." – Juliet Capulet [Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)]
I’m sure some of you readers are writers as well, and if you’re anything like me you will be disinclined to agree with Juliet’s statement. Because let’s be honest, names change the way we perceive others and perceive ourselves. Now, I understand that Juliet was simply saying that names do not quantify who we are, but then again...everyone did end up dying just because of a bunch of names…just saying.
Naturally the naming of our project was of extreme importance. So our very first working title for our project -compliments of James- was: “The Cursed Boys.”
Ok…so at that point I had visions of a horribly malformed Peter Pan and his misshapen posse hobbling across the universe to find a cure for their ailments. Not very reader-friendly but certainly amusing within its own rights. This title was of course promptly dismissed as even a working title because I just couldn’t get this vision of Captain Hook as a mad scientist out of my head.
Promptly following the dismissal of this title, James and I discussed that perhaps the title could revolve around this perfect potion that our men were fearlessly seeking. Periodic table of elements here we come…. Did you know that molecularly creating a potion that does not exist within the real world is pretty much impossible? This inevitably nixed that potential title and it was just me and the thesaurus left to duke it out.
After days filled with many hours of groaning and brainstorming the title fell into our laps. It came to me in an epiphany…or rather fell into my lap with it’s simplicity. And now we come to the climax of why you are even bothering to read this particular blog post…the title. In keeping with the theme for our story (which I will expound more on later,) what is it that we need most when we face complications or ailments with no solution? We need a remedy.
So now, formally introducing DreamClash Sight’s graphic novel to come…
RE:medy
Musingly yours,
Lyndsay
More sneak peeks to come….Coming to you next week: “Enter Estrogen.”
Ok, in my defense it was just "lost boys". There was no "the". It's way lamer sounding with a "the".
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