Dear Readers,

I've always been fascinated with the writing process. In fact, in college, I spent just as much time studying writers' lives and their personal stories as I did their actual works. To this day I still find myself on writers' blogs or websites, FB or IG accounts trying to glean every last bit of information as I can, which is why I want to share some of my own process with you. Lately I've been getting a lot of questions about how I came up with the title to my memoir Love Sick, so I thought I'd tell you...

The original title was M.S. to M-R-S. It was a play on words, or letters shall I say. I came up with it when I was twenty-eight and all my friends were getting married around me. I thought my time would come soon and wouldn’t it be clever if I wrote a book about MS (multiple sclerosis) and dating and eventually got married, thus turning the M.S. into an M-R-S in front of my name. Of course, years later when I realized this was not going to happen and making life choices based on trying to keep a title of a book was not the best way to go about life, I dropped that title and started searching for something new. I kept a little notes section going in my phone and whenever I had a title idea I would write it in there. For almost a year I did this and nothing was sticking. Then one day I was out for a walk and it hit me. Love Sick. It was the perfect play on words. A few days later I looked it up on urban dictionary and found this:

“A deep often depressing feeling of wanting to find love. To be longing for love; to be without a companion to share one’s life with, though it is desired deeply.”

And I knew I had made the right decision.

xo Cory


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