Everything, it would appear. Two days ago I should have started work on the next book.

(Well, okay, Monday evening I was out with the lads, Tuesday night a friend came around for dinner (bad tubular pasta event!), tonight I’m going out to see a couple of friends, tomorrow night I’m meeting up with a couple of friends, Friday I’m having a beer with another friend and Saturday I’m meeting up with some writers. So, yeah, maybe I should just have a category for excuses and see how many of these posts I write.)

I haven’t because I don’t have a title. That is to say I do have a title, but I don’t like it and without a good title I’m not feeling attached to the story.

Armed with my trusty dictionary and thesaurus, Amazon, Google and IMDb I made a list and did some thinking. Here’s some of the words I kicked around which match the theme of the story:

War, horror, justification, twists, karma, doing the right thing, religion, chance, wind, coil, hurt, loss, weave, loom, warp, tangle, weft, bane, sowing the seeds, reap, guerdon, reward, payment, punishment, retribution, revenge, retaliation, reprisal, punisher, punish, absolution, liberation, freedom, providence, interpretation, payment.

The searching finally offered:

Returning home once more,
From a war of twenty years or more,
To find his wife another man had taken
Thinking that she was forsaken,
It was the end of all his luck,
For he did not desire another crow to pluck.