*sighs loudly*
As you may remember, about four years ago I asked for help retitling the Chosen Grandma story.
(Thank you so much @StellaThomas for the DELIGHTFUL title I'm now using to query: The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher. If this dumb book EVER gets published, you can bet you'll be somewhere in the acknowledgements.)
WELP. I am once again asking for help retitling a WIP, because I Simply Cannot Title Things. The first draft of GroundskeeperWIP is done, and I'd love to print myself a proper title page with a proper working title for my first-draft readthrough.
SO. Step right up and give me suggestions! I do have access to this article on different methods for titling, as well as another article on titling, so I will be brainstorming on my own as well
The Plot
Peter Shaughnessy is more than two hundred years old and ready to die. Unfortunately, he can't: a youthful encounter with one o' them left him with a curse: to wander eternally far from home.
Now Peter wanders from town to town, ridding each place that calls to him of troublesome ghosts. Once, he was certain ridding the right town of the right ghost in the right way would break his curse—surely that's why immortality came with a side order of being able to see and understand spirits no one else knows are there. After a century of dispelling dangerous ghosts, he's stopped expecting his exploits to win him the death he desires, but he continues his ghost-hunting nonetheless: helping people gives his life some semblance of purpose, and leaving town when his work is done ensures that he never gets to know anyone too well or care about them too much.
Enter Harrington, Ohio. For the first time in more than a century, Peter finds himself wanting something other than death. A family. A community.
But he knows the people of Harrington will die someday. And he won't.
Afraid of the emotional danger he'll face if he stays, Peter decides to leave Harrington - but an angry spirit is determined to destroy the town, and Peter's the only one who can stop it.
The Tone
Similar to The House in the Cerulean Sea, particularly in terms of character arc, but possibly overall a little sadder (certainly a little spookier and anxiouser).
Any Questions?
If you feel like more information would help you come up with title suggestions, let me know what you need! The story is not posted on YWS, but some illustrative snippets are enspoilered below.
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