Monday, November 11, 2013

On the Subject of Titles

So, my current NaNo story is 29 pages in and still no title. I've posted on the suggestions thread and gotten some various and sundry mainstream sounding titles, with an interesting suggestion of Five over Three thrown in. While that one does sound quite interesting, it doesn't quite fit the bill for my story as it is currently.

Have I told you yet that a title is the hardest part about the story? How do you find a small sequence of words that sum up and project the emotion of this whole entity  that we call a book, that is infact a piece of the life of the author? It is made of her time and energy and emotion, she has given birth to this work through hard work and pain and occasional moments of pure happiness and inspiration that make the whole thing seem more worthwhile. How to name that?

That said, my story still needs a name, and I'm procrastinating on my word count by blogging about it...
*sigh*
Back to work then.

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