Personally, I like titles that have two meanings. The reader will likely have an interpretation of your title when beginning your story, and another when finishing it. I think a truly successful title manages to reveal a second layer of meaning to the reader who makes it all the way to the end of the book.
DaniSue said... I'll leave it up to the people who get paid to think up great titles and settle for mediocre ones as I write and query.
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Ooh, some great ideas! I like the musical inspirations and writing down the 'problematic' titles. Why not be controversial?
Great ideas!
Thanks for sharing. Great ideas!
These are all great ideas! Great post. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome! There's a lot of brilliance there, Bethany! :-)
People in the blogging world rock my socks off!
Don't forget the power of Wordle! Let it analyze some of your book and see what pops out!
I'm definitely going to use some of those from now on - awesome!
Good post, and thanks for the shout out.
Hope you're able to find a good idea amongst all those winners that everyone posted.
Nice shout out for some great advice! Thanks for the links. :)
Awesome and timely post! I'm awful with choosing titles. I very daringly decided to challenge myself with Slushpile Slut's Next Top Title Blogfest on June 12. Maybe I can get some good feedback on possible titles for my WIPs. Anyone else game?
LOVE the tax form one. How cool! Wish I had a cool story like that for my titles. haha
These were great to read! I got some good ideas on brainstorming my next novel title!
Titles... so important, and so tricky.
HarperCollins editor Jordan Brown plugged one-word titles at the SCBWI WW conference in April.
I like double-entendres, if they aren't overly obvious.
Or setting. Setting is good, and easy.
I either get a title up front or never at all. It's kind of weird. But I've noticed that if the title doesn't come to me up front, pretty much nothing ever sounds right and I just have to get used to a title that doesn't give me a gag reflex :)
There's some great advice in these comments. Thank you for sharing them. I could stand to learn a thing or two about titles.
What a wealth of great ideas! Thanks for sharing Bethany. Personally I'm terrible at titles but some of these ideas would help I bet.
This is all great advice. Thanks for summing it up for us, Bethany!
Good luck with yours!
I was just thinking about this! That's kinda' funny.
Um... Most of the time I can come up with pretty good titles, but I have to agree that sometimes Nothing Sounds Right and then it's just awful.
But at least we're all in this torture together, right? ;)
These were great to read!
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