Story Titles

[browngirl]

I can't believe I never asked this before.

So, how do you title your stories?

amanuensis1 wrote a fascinating entry here about the process. For myself, I usually come up with the title when I do the story idea, are occasionally the title *is* the story idea When I don't, I usually go for titles that play on a theme for the story, but those rarely satisfy me as well as the more organic titles I arrive at with the idea.

Some examples:

"The Chief's Day" is an example of a story where the title is the story idea. I was thinking about an "ordinary day" challenge from ringprov, and came up with that.

"Dream Blossoms" is an example of a title that came with the plotbunny. I was riffing off of hobbit naming customs; if the reader realizes that, that fact plus the pairing will tell them what the story is about.

"While We Raise Our Hearts in Love" is a title I had to work to find, and it's longer and clunkier than the other titles above, isn't it?

Comments

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

I reemember that image! Ooooh.

You use song lyrics the way thete1 one does, which is a way I really admire. I never seem to find those precise lovely phrases that work so very well.

I liked the riffs in the title "The Hollow Man" (not least, you redeemed my having read that depressing incredibly long poem) I alo liked and was creeped out by the story, and I need to go back and reread it and tell you so properly.