Geminus

Yup. That's the title.
When I named it I had in mind the word 'Gemini', or 'twins', but I wanted a single one, a 'twin'. So I called it Geminus, thinking that sounded plausible as the singular form.
Then I Wikipedia'd the word 'geminus' and came up with some Greek astronomer from waaay back, and thought: "Hmmmm. That can't be good."
Then I tried Wikipedia'ing the word 'twins' and got a lot of poop about identical twins, non-identical twins, even half twins (which I would have thought an impossibility. Apparently not), which is all very interesting in a purely biological sense, but doesn't really help me any.
Anyway, long story short: by hopping through a few disambiguation links I eventually found this definition of the word Geminus on Wiktionary.
So I'd gotten it right all along. Which is a relief since I don't have a single idea what else to call this book.

Word count: 18K and rising *yay*
Synopsis: later, guys

Off!

So, it's now officially the first of November.

As I've done for the past couple of years as well I sat up until past midnight in order to get started as soon as possible. Paid off, too. Just under 2300 words by 2.30 local time (and not exactly busting a vein doing it either), then followed up with another 1200 earlier today. So count is already over 3500, and it's only Day 1. Got a good feeling about this one.

What it's all about: Well, last year I wrote 'Counterworld' (and shamefully have to admit that I didn't even see fit to write about writing on this blog), and this year's 'Geminus' is a sequel to that. According to my plan (barring any sudden and unexpected developments such as life happening) it's supposed to become a trilogy, which means I've got next year's NaNo project already lined up too. Heh.

More later, including an answer to the question even now spreading across the interwebberversosphere like a swine flu panic in the media: "Why 'Geminus'? What does that even mean?" Well, stay tuned to this blog (or something) and I'll try to explain. Whether or not the explanation makes sense is entirely at the reader's discretion.