The software tells me to add a title, so I added the title “Title.”

As usual, I don’t have a title for my novel yet. Closing in on one, maybe. Why is this so hard? I pay attention to other writers’ titles, obviously, and a lot of them seem somewhat arbitrary to me. I just read “Stella Maris” by Cormac McCarthy. Stella Maris is the name of the psychiatric facility where the novel takes place, so OK. But is there any further meaning to it? Beats me.

Sometimes the title finally arrives, and then I have to change content to justify it. This may be happening here, as I contemplate the next draft. Or maybe not. I’ll let you know!