Strange Seawolf 🕒 CET<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PennedPossibilities</span></a> How did you come up with the title for your WIP?</p><p>I wanted to write an <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Odyssey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Odyssey</span></a> of a cargo space ship with a captain who didn't want to be a captain. The story would of course be called like the ship. So, this ship needed a name.</p><p>I didn't want to have a straightforward <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a> universe like we see it so often: clean, streamlined, functional. Because humantity isn't like that, history isn't like that. There are always fallbacks into earlier eras, idiosyncracies, counterintuitive, illogical bits. It is complex, not simple.</p><p>So, the ship would need a name that reflects that. And since it is part of a fleet it needed a name that fit into a naming convention for the rest of the fleet. The most obvious choice is to name a ship after a bird. I looked around and found the herald petrels which are part of the gadfly petrels, so there are a lot of other petrels for the sister ships.</p><p>Also, the name sounds somehow strong and a bit scary because of the "Herald", at the same time it echoes the name of its captain Harold Galahad.</p><p>The Herald Petrel was born.</p><p>The book: <a href="https://books2read.com/b/HeraldPetrel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">books2read.com/b/HeraldPetrel</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>The bird: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herald_petrel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herald_p</span><span class="invisible">etrel</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/AmWritingSFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWritingSFF</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/HeraldPetrel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HeraldPetrel</span></a></p>