What's a Good Story Title?

  • folie a dru.

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    The Blurred Shape of Two Pyromaniacs was written for a we_are_cities prompt and I approach naming stories for WAC prompts different than I normally do. I consider the title for those prompts to be a photograph more than a summation. And this was the photograph I got from the story which, to the naked eye, is just two boys sitting around lighting things on fire.
    April 5th, 2011 at 02:30am
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    As I Trimmed His Wings was because I needed to fit the concept of birds/flight/wings in there somewhere as it wasn't actually mentioned in the story. And it also fit in with Brendon keeping him from going.
    April 5th, 2011 at 04:59am
  • fairyfeller

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    Two Boys, Pretending was named because I refer to both characters as boys, instead of teenagers or men or whatever. Also, throughout the story I mention how they're pretending in some way, which reflects Ryan's stand-up and Colin's love for improv.
    April 7th, 2011 at 02:32pm
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    On Display was because I wanted to dehumanize Ryan somewhat and this made me think of a window display.
    April 8th, 2011 at 10:55pm
  • fooleish

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    Eighteen Reasons Why is because there are eighteen sentences and eighteen reasons. And because I liked the vague sort of ambiguity of it. And because it just sort of made sense.

    A Darkening Glow is a recycled title for a fic I ended up naming something else, and it just seemed to fit better for this one. The glow could be either Brendon or Ryan or Spencer, but in my head it's Ryan, which is weird because I don't normally like to fixate on Ryan, but there you go.
    April 14th, 2011 at 06:47am
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    Escaping Reality came when I was in the story title thread, asking for a title. I was trying have a story title inspired by the words, escape and freedom and came up with Escaping Reality. The characters in my story do want to escape reality, which is part of the reason for the road trip they embark on.
    July 18th, 2011 at 10:42am
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    Degausser is one of my favorite titles, even though I stole it from a Brand New song tehe I feel like, despite the fact that the story's not a songfic, every aspect of "Degausser" as a song meshed with the story I had outlined in my mind. Plus, degausser means to demagnetize something, particularly ship hulls and film, and I thought the demagnetizing of film part tied in since the main characters are actors and over the course of the story, these two boys have basically everything drawn out of them.

    I really adore the titles of The Anatomy of Logan Mitchell and each fill for my Logan Mitchell prompt table (particularly Equilibrium,Buoyancy, and Fusion) because they're all so science-y and so his character without being too technical or too off-putting. And because, truthfully, I'm a bit of a science nerd myself, so I got to get a bit of that out through those titles tehe
    July 18th, 2011 at 09:01pm
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    The Crumbling Pyramid is such named because the whole story is about the fall of a strict social order and my characters make several references to this as the "social pyramid." Plus, "Crumbling Ladder" sounds stupid tehe
    July 20th, 2011 at 03:08am
  • Ayana Sioux

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    I'm beginning to dislike the *Object one here* and *Object two here* titles because I see too many of them and it starts to make a cliche title. Ex: Lipstick and Crayons and stuff like that. Also I don't like titles that have the story's genre in the title. Ex: A Superstar Romance, or The Dragon Fantasy. I'm a type a person who likes mystery and I don't like titles that pretty much tell what the stories about; I like to figure out why someone used a certain title. This includes: I Fell in Love with a Rock-star, or I was Adopted by a Vampire and Now he Wants to Marry Me! and those kinds of titles. Actually, those titles are quite awful.
    July 20th, 2011 at 02:44pm
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    Strut is a story title that I'm actually rather proud of. I'm not sure how I came up with it, but I think it reflects the arrogance of many of the characters in the story. It also reminds me of something glamorous and of models walking the runway, which is also very relevant to my setting.
    July 21st, 2011 at 01:34am
  • bellamy blake

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    I've become recently obsessed with ampersands in titles tehe
    July 26th, 2011 at 03:57am
  • fooleish

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    ^ I can't write and in a story title, I don't really know why. & just looks so much prettier. File

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    Usually I wimp out and just use lyrics for titles, but The Deepest Secret Nobody Knows is taken from the poem i carry your heart with me by E E Cummings. A great improvement, I know. tehe But the entire poem is really suited to the story, so it works.
    August 22nd, 2011 at 03:55am
  • outtahereyall

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    f(l)ighting was named as such with the parenthesis because one character has a 'fight' instinct and one has a 'flight' instinct. when i'm able to make a story title that plays up on a little detail like that, i am a happy mellon Cute
    August 22nd, 2011 at 04:04am
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    The novel that I'm currently writing for my prose class at uni is called Imperfect Cadence.
    It's probably my favourite title that I've ever thought of because it just fits so perfectly with the story which is about a composer with Huntington's Disease. Though quite a few people in my class didn't get it because they don't know much about music, but they liked it when they understood Cute
    August 23rd, 2011 at 09:37am
  • Ayana Sioux

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    I guess my new story Tortured Souls is one because it catches readers attention. At least on this site, anything that hints towards love or agony tends to catch someones attention. At least that's what I've noticed because I've done both and they both caught readers attention.

    Which would you click on first?
    Extranormal
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    Tortured Souls?
    August 23rd, 2011 at 05:40pm
  • Katie Mosing

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    I like titles that are out of the norm. If I've never seen it before, chances are I'll at least give the story a peek.
    August 20th, 2013 at 02:20am
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