Speaking of Titles

[ostarella]

Excellent little article here:

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

Comments

[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)