Title Nights Update

No, I haven't got a title yet, but I got up this morning with an overwhelming urge to sort out the brainstorming list of what my novel Aulani is about but all sorts of things got in the way and now it's gone lunch time. It's funny how the mind sometimes feels as though the latest thoughts just have to be let out somewhere.

I started off trying to change yesterday's Title Nights post, but it got so messy, I'd thought I'd leave it and start a new one. 

Here is the new list of what the novel is about. I've grouped together the things that belong with each other and deleted items that are too minor to include. Was almost shocked to see that I'd not included 'rape' in the first list.

Q - identity

• a child being thrown out by her mother
• tangled family connections
• blood lines
• family bonds

Q - how do you change someone's beliefs - and should you?

• accusations of sorcery
• torture and rape
• belief systems and the fact that what you believe alters how you behave
• the difficulty of changing someone's beliefs 
• special powers
• manipulation of people's beliefs for both personal and political ends

Q - Why do people behave as they do? Fate vs freewill?

• coming to terms with killing someone
• working out who to trust
• betrayal
• payback
• the complexity of people 

Q - Are cultural differences superficial?

• comparison of places and cultures - Papua New Guinea, Australia and UK

Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner 

This shouldn't have been be in the list at all. It's not what the novel is about, it's a wish. A hope that the readers will understand the characters and forgive them for their bad actions. A wish for them to be lovable.

Here's a link to the first post on Title Nights, and the one that comes after this one Title Nights - the spirits of the dead, and the one after that next one Title - got it! I think... - and a link to my this week's post for HOT  Be fearless - write your truth.