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I think this is going well.
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Insead of This could be you:
1) YOU
2) THEM
3) THE OTHERS
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"this could be you, just like everyone else, those who do not belong"
Is my favorite.
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There, I voted for my own idea. I'm still brainstorming around it though
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Did we make regionals?
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ooops! Was I allowed to vote? Not that I like voting so much
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No subs.
No subs.
No subs.
No subs.
No subs.
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Did we make it to regionals?
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Alright on to nationals!
Funny enough - I didn't even vote for mine. :P
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"Im going to retitle the book to, I don't care as long as I'm in it."
THIS!!!
I voted for altered realities, twisted perceptions. And I'm the only one.
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Actually, I agree with Rachel. Keep it simple, schizo.
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Also, a big "1" alone on a page, and so on, can be quite foreboding. Methinks.
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I voted for "this could be you, just like everyone else, those who do not belong". It sparks interaction with the reader, as well as intrigue. It's like word-cologne.
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I meant foreboding in a good way, too. Intimidating, rather. Downright terrifying, perhaps.
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I agree with Rebecca, only I suggest adjusting the order a bit with a slight rewording:
- Those Who Don't Belong
- Like Anyone Else
- This Could be You
So it sets up a classic trickle-down theory; "Those who don't belong," directs the reader to a "That is them, not me or us," attitude. Then adjusts that to "Those who don't belong--who might be just like anyone else." Again, still constraining the diagnosis to the person next-door, not actually the reader. "This could be you," could potentially be the reveal.
This could be refined more.
- Them
- You
- Me
I like this concept personally. I think it has potential. Play with it. Give the reader something, but only enough that they climb into bed with their own insecurities.
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@Quai: Arithmophobia just sounds good like the Eurythmics.
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I like the big 1! Also small, doesn't really matter.
But I also like how Chester worked around the Me You Them stuff, but then shouldn't be the order
- Them
- Me
- You
?
Can I vote again?
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"Jason, we need to do a mashup! How about funky town meets dr. Dre?"
I say we do that Snoop meets Grease mash-up. We'll be a shoe-in for Nationals, and then it's Maxi-Nationals, Country, Hemisphere, World, Universe, and then if we're lucky Alternate Universe and Parallel Universe!
:fingers crossed:
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I voted for "this could be you, just like everyone else, those who do not belong" with "I don't care as long as I'm in it" as a very close second. I gave my arguments for those section titles in the other Psychosis thread.
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You, Them, Me works for me.
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I don't like the idea of sections much. Just because it implies that what is in one section could not possibly be in another section too. For example, those who aren't in the "don't belong" section, do they all belong 100%? And will all readers have to agree that they identify with those who "could be you"? And I don't know that anyone who writes a psychosis story would want people to think of the character as being just like anyone else.
Maybe I'm just not sure what those categories really do to the stories and if I would like my story to be in one of them.
I'd like readers to make up their own categories as they read. But I see that my vote stands alone. Or, it doesn't belong.
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True. That's why more obscure might work better so as not to label the stories in that section too much?
Files 34Q.6789 through 47R.9352 or something along the files concept discussed earlier.
It is fun to think about this stuff though.
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Let's make the book a virtual visit to an insane asylum. I've thrown the idea of case files out there. Run with that just call the sections Ward I, Ward II, and Ward III.
Or base it off therapy types: Talk It Out, Popping Pills, Electroshock
Or we name them after My Little Pony
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I settle for Ward I, Ward II, Ward III.
Simple, direct, in theme, not distracting. And, last but not least, insidiously evocative.
Bravo Jason.
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i voted no sections. why explain or defend? just put the stories out there.
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Meh, I don't like any of them but I can't change my vote so I say no sections too.
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I like Wards.
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I'm for 3 wards now.
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I like the wards idea!
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Kilgore Trout.
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Ian Brady says
Not Bad
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Mine would go in ward 3.
The thing is that both Teresa/Wanda and Norma/Amanda/Bennyboy/Killer are pretty functional, so at first you'd say they belong to the "just like everyone else". That's not it. Those characters have never been like anyone else, their lives were born shattered. Maybe their parents, or whoever abused Teresa and Norma, probably looked like normal people but were monsters instead.
Ward III. Shattered, Cracked & Broken.
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