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Let's not look at this as someone so lacking in creativity that they can't think of their own title. That's not what this is at all. So, just to avoid that concept, lets change the direction of the thread to where it should be.
No more listing potential titles.
Let's talk only about existing titles and what makes them great.
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Yeah, I just realized that my last suggestion was in Fragments and Feedback as someone else's title. <shrug>
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IB I like it, it's also darklight's story and I noticed the title too, I think it's going to be the tentative title, yes!!
And a special thanks to IB for humoring me with title ideas and giving me feedback, which I found very helpful.
Though I'm not sure why everyone else seems so opposed to a discussion on specific titles and comparing them. (Sometimes it is, believe it or not, helpful to get and consider outside points of view.) [I know, strange concept to digest.]
In any case I wasn't aware that discussing titles was somehow not related to writing, I thought a forum about writing would allow discussion on all aspects of writing, but I suppose I was somehow mistaken...
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On this theme; I've read novels with titles that (as far as I can see) have little connection with the novel. Or I've read half of it or more and then said, 'that's why it's called that!' And there are some that seem to have no connection with the book at all.
Of course there are those that are immediately obvious (I've just finished Hyperion by Dan Simmons, no guess to why it was called that).
For me, they either come to me right away or it's very hard to find one that I like. For example, I wrote a kids novel for a competition here in the UK - did even make the cut but that wasn't suprising considering I rushed it and didn't edit porperly - point is, I couldn't think of a good title for it and came up with something stupid and pathetic - honestly - I hated it but it was too late, I'd sent it off. Then, weeks later on the train - not sure if that helped or not - I suddenly said, Ghosts in the Machine - Ok, not an altogether orignal title but summed the novel up exactly.
Point? Maybe you need to stop thinking about it - and it'll come to you when you're least expecting it.
quote:...a special thanks to IB for humoring me with title ideas and giving me feedback...
No problem. I was having fun. Hell I might just come back here and type a few more doodle-titles.
Like: Zeroed In I Forgot On the Tip of my Tongue 0 Put Title Here................. The Rememberer What Was I Going to Call This Book? Oh, Yeah! A Skip in the Rift Who am I and What do I want?: Catching Fraudulant Psychics....
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OK in that case, considering the different titles, what directions (of kinds of stories) do they point you in?
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Speaking of titles, can somebody please remind me of the title to OSC's book that discusses POV. I can't find my scrap paper that had the title (my office is a pit), B&N is not coming up on my computer right now, and amazon bugs me. Thanks for the help.
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