Sometimes I come up with really fantastic titles out of the blue that have absolutely nothing to do with the story they I come up with them for! And sometimes I use them anyway.
And then sometimes I come up with titles which themselves are the seeds of stories!
And then sometimes I sit and stare at a story and it refuses to gain a good title, or even a passable title, no matter what tactics I try. And I end up giving them completely shitty titles like Water Rights. Which is on a story that I worked on for like eight months. It's about the owner of a hydroponics rig in space who ends up having to dismantle her business to provide water to space colonists after some yahoo blows up the space elevator that exports water from Earth. I'm absolutely certain that there had to be at least fifty better titles out there, but I could find none of them. Or like Epic, which was an FFVIII fanfic. Which was, as originally conceived... well, epic.
If the Gay YA refuses to give me a better title than "the Gay YA", I am going to punch it in its snarky little novel face.
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Date: 2012-05-29 08:30 am (UTC)From:And then sometimes I come up with titles which themselves are the seeds of stories!
And then sometimes I sit and stare at a story and it refuses to gain a good title, or even a passable title, no matter what tactics I try. And I end up giving them completely shitty titles like Water Rights. Which is on a story that I worked on for like eight months. It's about the owner of a hydroponics rig in space who ends up having to dismantle her business to provide water to space colonists after some yahoo blows up the space elevator that exports water from Earth. I'm absolutely certain that there had to be at least fifty better titles out there, but I could find none of them. Or like Epic, which was an FFVIII fanfic. Which was, as originally conceived... well, epic.
If the Gay YA refuses to give me a better title than "the Gay YA", I am going to punch it in its snarky little novel face.