Episode #184.1: The Hardest Part Of The Story Is Done

I think water was found by Father Nature's diving rod the other day. Or a stick figure is missing their upper half.

The reasoning behind the ".1" for post numbering is pretty gosh darn simple: after completing part three of a four part series about my trilogy project, I'd managed to apply a bit of brain grease and completed not only the required back cover blurb for my upcoming novella that has the place holder title of Average American Novella, but came up with two possible titles as well. And since this is an extension of the previous post, well, there you go.

Naturally this required a bit of shuffling around the blog posts, which consisted of moving everything one week back. Twice. Why twice? Because sometimes when the brain goes on true auto-pilot (c'mon, I know you've experienced this from time to time, right?), you're so locked in on making sure, in this particular case, the dates being accurate that you forgot to make the numeric order of the posts are accurate too.

Now, enough about that. Let's focus on the here and now. I would like to share with you the reader, the blurb for my upcoming (we're shooting for a 2023 release) novella, as well as the two titles. The two titles in question are: The Lie Reveals The Truth and The Hidden Truth.

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Dmitri was hip deep in an uncontrollable rage inducing beat-down and he was none-too-pleased about it.

Against his better judgment, he decided to do a very small favor for a friend and was now deeply regretting it. After experiencing bouts of extreme annoyance that quickly manifested into lethal bouts of extreme prejudice being performed, Dmitri was more than ready to torch the package he was carrying and deal with the consequences later.

But karma had other plans for him, as when he came upon a minivan to steal with an unwilling partner, the owner’s daughter suddenly took a shine to him. For reasons known only to her, Kaitlyn persuaded Dmitri to take her along, instead of his current partner, to help with the delivery.

Somewhere along the way, they became more than unwilling partners thrown together by chance. But could that deeper commitment somehow survive the dangers that lay ahead on their journey to deliver that package?

Now I know I have to do a bit of tweaking as the blurb clocks in at 157 words, mainly reducing the word count and re-adjusting the opening line yet again (6 times already before posting it to my FB page). But I really would like your opinion on which title would work best: a long title of five words or a shorter title of three words.

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