Can I tell you, when I went to put this little retrospective together, it was a pain in the butt to find the file with today’s story? After looking in every file and folder I could think of and doing repeated searches for “Daisy’s Tree,” I was starting to think I would have to open the eBook on Amazon and type it all over again. Then I saw a file with a curious title and it all came back to me in a rush. The file wasn’t saved as “Daisy’s Tree,” but under this short story’s working title, “Cup of Kindness.” This is as good a time as ever to confess to you guys that I’m terrible at titles. I rarely start a story with a title in mind, and I frequently change the title multiple times before I present the story to the world. And even then, nine times out of ten, I’m not happy with what I land on. Other People’s Heroes was Capes and Masks throughout the writing of the first draft, and if you can think of a blander title for a superhero novel, I’d love to hear it. Even this year’s story, the first draft of which I finished this afternoon as I write this on Dec. 17, has a working title that I don’t like at all. I hope I can come up with something better before I share it with you guys on the 23rd.
Oh yeah. “Daisy’s Tree.” Cute story. I think you’ll like it. And I forgot before I started to go over this that a friend from an earlier story makes an appearance. Look at me, being all clever like that.
Blake M. Petit 