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Titles!
blgarver:
I never really concern myself with the title. I just start writing, and eventually a cool title just comes to me.
The one I'm writing right now is called "Between Shadow and Dream" but I'm not 100% satisfied with it. Once it's done I'm gonna change it I think.
My fantasy trilogy already has a title, though I haven't written it yet: Rise of the Shadow. I don't have titles for all the books yet, but one of them is called "The Isle of Tears."
I love titles, and I can usually come up with some pretty fitting ones when I don't force it.
LizW65:
I'm great at coming up with titles, EXCEPT for whatever I'm currently trying to write. ;D I used to have notebooks filled with titles, but could never think of any stories to fit them.
blgarver:
--- Quote from: LizW65 on August 27, 2007, 02:28:29 PM ---I'm great at coming up with titles, EXCEPT for whatever I'm currently trying to write. ;D I used to have notebooks filled with titles, but could never think of any stories to fit them.
--- End quote ---
A best friend of mine works title first. Awesome titles, and then the stories are always really awesome. Now if he would just get around to writing them...
ahem...he's a member of the boards here, but is rarely on.
Josh:
I don't stress over titles too much, though I do try to nail them down somewhat when I get to making up queries for agents, just so they're interesting and put across the type of story it is.
My latest two titles and works are:
Dyssomnia
and
Paramnesia
Unrelated stories, but they give a flavor for what happens. For me, a title, like a character's name, is almost always fluid. It can change if something better comes along and fits well.
Mickey Finn:
A good title will get you picked up from the slush pile. "The Winds of Limbo Roar" got me noticed at the story read, then bought.
Consequently, "From Japan, With Love" didn't do well.
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