#2. 500k words twice every week (I am lighting prayer candles to you in hopes of winning your favor; you are God and/or the Devil)

[greenerteacups]

was conducting my bi-weekly reread of lionheart (as one does when in need of a pick me up) when i noticed a note in the preface about how the original title of lionheart was initially “all their words for glory”. glory was a huge theme in book 1, considering the whole sorting hat vs draco debacle, but i was also just wondering if there was a story behind what prompted the title change?

Yeah! Glory was a huge theme in Book 1 — to a similar but slightly lesser extent in subsequent books because there's not usually all that much glory to be had in middle school, even if you are trying to save your idiot friend from dying, at least as Draco understands it — but it crops back up in the last two books in a major, major way, and it was those two books (basically, the ending of the fic) I was thinking of when I named the fic. But it kept itching at me for some reason, because I didn't like the length, or the syntax, or the mouthfeel or something, and more than anything it just felt... wrong. Like, it wasn't a bad title, but it wasn't the title, you know? It wasn't right. I kept toying with alternatives, like "Glory" or "Words for Glory," or other song excerpts, but nothing satisfied.

Then one day, I was brushing my teeth and thinking about the fic — as you do — and the word "lionheart" dropped into my brain. Just out of the blue nowhere. It's like the muse kicked up her sexy-ass leg and pitched a fastball straight into my brain.

I changed the fic name the next day, and it's been that way ever since.