I Need Your Feedback
Title ideas for the book...
Hey friends,
Greetings from Gurgaon, India!
This week’s issue is going out slightly later than usual. Sorry about that. I will also be keeping it short this time.
I require your feedback. I’m currently trying to find a title for my upcoming memoir. This has proven much harder than I anticipated. So, I want to leverage my audience for ideas.
Since many of you are new, I’ll give you the TLDR. I am writing a memoir about the last seven years of my life that I’ve spent exploring the natural world. It traces my journey across several habitat types in India (primarily; there’s one outside, but it’s mostly India). Through this journey, I hope to showcase my passion and changing personality.
Right now, these are the titles I came up with, but I am not entirely happy with them. So, I am open to your suggestions. Vote in the poll, and send me your suggestions by either leaving a comment or replying to this email.
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Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest. —JACK LONDON
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I like the last one, "The Making of a Naturalist" the best. I think it's more representative of your journey and who you became through it and it would give a first-time reader a more "concrete" beginning-middle-end to hold on to. They know that they're going to pick up the book and follow you on that journey, change with you, and possibly become more of a naturalist themselves after reading your perspective.
I could see some sort of subtitle like, "My life growing up in India" or "Seven years spent wandering the Indian subcontinent" as good matches that would help flesh it out. (You can probably think of a punchier subtitle, I'm just spitballing here.)
The Light of Wilder Things is my favorite of these Ishan. Whenever I think about you and your pursuits, "wonder" is the word that always shows up in my mind. Not sure how you might represent it in a title.