Speaking of Titles

[ostarella]

Excellent little article here:

http://short.fictionfactor.com/articles/title.html

Comments

[billy-shriner.livejournal.com]

A short line of dialogue or a memorable sentence from your story can sometimes be the right choice.

Hey, I did this with Hard Targets, and I try and do it in some way with my stories, depending on them. So I was doing something right! I wonder if that's why Hard Targets gets quite a lot of hits on ff.net?

This was a great little article! Hey, if I get to write Hunted I'll keep it as "Hunted" now lol!

But I'll remember to keep them short from now on (most are actually - except Face's Ten Things...but it worked for the film ;o)) No more than five words! Which is generally what I do ;o)

Great find! Thank you!

[billy-shriner.livejournal.com]

I wonder if that's why Hard Targets gets quite a lot of hits on ff.net?

ddrr! Can't edit!

What I meant, I wonder if that title is a good one, as it gets a lot of hits compared to some of my other stories. That and it's only 16,000 words! Can't believe how short that story is now!

[ostarella.livejournal.com]

I think the title must have a lot to do with it - it's intriguing, and ominous sounding without being totally dark. I can't explain it but it's just a good title. ;)

[ostarella.livejournal.com]

Check out that whole site - it's got a *lot* of good articles and resources.

[billy-shriner.livejournal.com]

I'll try to take a look another time. Off to work in a bit ;o(

[beckyblack]

Thanks for that link. I'm still trying to come up with a new title for The Siege of Hollow Jimmy, so it's given me some ideas. And I need one for the Watkins story.

Titles are a real nightmare for me sometimes. Some just spring up out of nowhere and are perfect, and others are painful and I never get to like them.

I think my favourite may be one I haven't written yet! Ship of Fools. :D

Oh and song titles are always an inspiration. Check out Rolling Stones song titles especially. They have loads that sound like great A-Team fanfic story titles to me.

[ostarella.livejournal.com]

I get that site's newsletter, and they almost always have at least one article that's worth reading.

Titles - I don't know. Sometimes I have to hunt around for a title - more often than not I come up with the title and then have to figure out the story it goes to (sound familiar?) ;-)

[beckyblack]

Heh, yes, I've had a couple of titles sitting around that had no story to go with them. Some eventually find one. But I currently have "Frequent Flyer", which sounds like it has to be about BA, and "Operation Full Bird", which sounds to me like it could be about Hannibal and Decker competing for a promotion to full Colonel (thinking of Decker's "Lt Colonel Smith" crack in Curtain Call, I think Decker may have won.)

[billy-shriner.livejournal.com]

yeah I like song titles. They are always good to use or lyrics within them ;o)