Nova
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Post by Nova on May 4, 2010 8:09:45 GMT -5
Titles have never been something that has held up my time to much. Maybe when Ive finished a book whit ch i still haven't i will put more thought into it. I do have tentative titles don't know how good they are, but the books in the series I'm writing right now are, The Glass Tower, Basilica of Wind and In Fields of Gold.
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Post by thogmaster on May 14, 2010 21:15:56 GMT -5
Titles are powerful. They can make a book sink or float. I like what Jeff said about some people having strengths in coming up with titles. Names and titles and such are the main strengths that I have. I usually end up thinking of the plot-line first, which allows me to think of a title that indicates a general idea of what the book is about. Take a key point or subject and develop the title based off that.
I'll use some of my titles for examples: A key point in one of my tales is the appearance of a certain star at a critical point in time called the Dragon Star. The resulting title: "A Star Called Dragon". Other titles include: "The Dawn of Twilight", "The Dead Civilization", "The Thogmasters", "Flames Spread From Thelipno", and others.
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Post by newburydave on May 15, 2010 16:10:29 GMT -5
Okay, I know I'm the outlier in almost every distribution universe that I've ever tried to live in. (in which I've ever tried to live? grammar. . . grrr)
I mean I'm usually different. Several times I've gotten the title first and then spun the story out of it, kind of like a topic sentence, or one of those elevator pitch sentences Jeff talks about in his book.
But then I've changed that title after the work was half or more done. So I guess my provisional title or working title can be a start but it isn't the final issue.
There is one novelization I'm working where the original title is still the working title because it does sum up the whole main theme of the book in two words, "Human Interface". I've gotten the most positive feedback on the v.03 short story that begins the story arc on a secular publishers site of anything I've written, because of the theme.
There might be something to that.
SGD
dave
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