The Wet Weather Plan

I'm no nearer to writing my novel but for the first time, I've got a title I'm sort of happy with.

The Wet Weather Plan could go in a number of directions, which is what I like about it. It's not too obvious or cliched and doesn't do what I dislike intensely - use a recognisable phrase and trade on the familiarity of it to make what is almost certainly a so-so book sound memorable. A good example of the genre is This Charming Man - a chick lit novel that came out in 2007 or so and which I dearly hope will not be followed up by a sequel entitled Girlfriend In A Coma or even Hang The DJ.

While I've little more to add other than that the title works, it's an important step forward to giving an idea form - and one that's a lot more inspiring than the oft-cited Semi-Detached, which was the working title for a piece I began writing some years ago charting depressive episodes and an upsetting sense of entrapment in a difficult situation.

So, The Wet Weather Plan. Will it go horribly wrong or turn out to be a revealing alternative to the original plan? We'll just have to see.