Fic titles meme
Wiped myself out at the allotment today. 4 hours. Bath. food. Day gone. Managed to write another few thousand words and to finish the title pic this morning, though.
Thinking about fic titles, because I've been thinking how much input the titles of my current Evil Babies -- that's House Divided and Eurydice's Adventures in the Underworld, the original one, have shaped the stories. Because both of those came along really early in the writing/planning process. So with Eurydice I was constantly reminding myself that the fic was MARA'S story, who is both Orpheus genderflipped searching for William, as well as Nathan's Eurydice, and I love Nathan insanely -- he doesn't have to be being nice for me to love him -- but Mara's situation was the centre point. With House Divided, the title really has determined how all the fractures play out in the plot, and I wanted Audrey vs. Mara, which the show said it wanted but never really ever did do, so the division shot through the fic is both the one in MarAudrey's brain and Nathan and William's counter intentions and affections pulling in opposing directions.
SO how about a titles meme?
Came part and parcel with the idea for the story: 5 Times Jordan McKee Killed Nathan Wuornos. Ha. Ha. Hahahaha. House Divided, the minute I knew I wanted to write a sequel. Down. Sky Haven pretty much WAS the inspiration for that one, and I didn't want to call it that because I already had Cape Haven, but I didn't have any other ideas and it was so intimately connected I couldn't bring myself to do anything else.
Panic stations! The fic is ready to post/I have to post this tomorrow and I don't have a title: Cape Haven. I hate that I had to call it that. Gotta be a better freakin' name for a superhero AU out there. Also Men Fear to Tread... I was still debating the title as I posted.
I have to call it something and it might as well be that: Redemption of Killers and Rogues acquired that title really early on and nothing better ever came up. Trail of Evidence. Breathe. Most of the meme ones. A lot of the pinch hits and fic exchange ones.
LordKingBadTitle: The Great Looney Tunes Caper of 2010 sucks donkey balls. Most of my One Piece titles are bad because the fics were written for the anonmeme and often didn't have titles originally, and generally I think I was having a sucky patch with titles.
Loaners (suggested by my beta reader/my mum/some guy I accosted on the street/the cat): Katta suggested Il Seraglio for the Luffy-trying-to-get-Sanji-out-of-the-harem fic.
Title that makes me glee like an idiot: Eurydice's Adventures in the Underworld, Trigger, and Pinocchio is Bleeding. Maybe 5 Times Jordan McKee Killed Nathan Wuornos, but not because it's clever, just because it makes me snigger. Mister Niska and the Ancient Art of Marriage Counselling. William the Bloody Useless and the Beaker of Doom? Back on a serious note, Theatre of the Absurd (which is also both darkly punny and integrally connected to the story's early inspiration).
Punny: Twisted was meant to be a play on Tangled. I guess Pinocchio is Bleeding and Trigger are punny, in a dark way. Containment Integrity. Stone Cold Killer. The Naked Truth... suddenly I'm realising I have more of these than I thought.
One worders that don't suck: I think Trigger is fucking genius. :P Silencer isn't bad and Unbreakable, Risen and Desperation are all titles I'm happy with. Waxwork is an old one I'm really happy with. (Fix sucks, though. Inertia sucks. And most of the Firefly titles suck - I came up with them all in too short a time frame.)
Best attempt to break AO3's character limit: Four Times Nathan or Duke got Caught in the Crossfire (& one time they didn't) is the wordiest. But I'm often fairly wordy.
Working title alternatives and "You can't call it that"s: I wanted the third installment of Unbreakable to be The Death of Nathan Wuornos, but after due mocking it's going to be Shattered. Pinocchio is Bleeding was a major, MAJOR "can I really call it this?" almost throughout the whole process, but it did get called that. Sea Change II was that for so long that I literally couldn't bring myself to name it anything else by the time it came to posting. Dwight Hendrickson and the Tigers From Mars got a lot of squinty-eyed looks but as soon as I thought of that it was doomed, DOOMED to be called that. There's no way I was changing it.
What does it meeeaaan?: Winter's Flotsam is the debris left after the snow melts. I am/was pretty sure. But googling it doesn't help much.
Literary Allusions/Song titles: I don't do the song titles (or lyrics, I think?) thing. Oh, wait, I do have one: Comfortably Numb. Scuppered by Pink Floyd. The Sky is Falling is the name of a science fiction book by Lester del Rey that I read multiple times as a teenager.
Thinking about fic titles, because I've been thinking how much input the titles of my current Evil Babies -- that's House Divided and Eurydice's Adventures in the Underworld, the original one, have shaped the stories. Because both of those came along really early in the writing/planning process. So with Eurydice I was constantly reminding myself that the fic was MARA'S story, who is both Orpheus genderflipped searching for William, as well as Nathan's Eurydice, and I love Nathan insanely -- he doesn't have to be being nice for me to love him -- but Mara's situation was the centre point. With House Divided, the title really has determined how all the fractures play out in the plot, and I wanted Audrey vs. Mara, which the show said it wanted but never really ever did do, so the division shot through the fic is both the one in MarAudrey's brain and Nathan and William's counter intentions and affections pulling in opposing directions.
SO how about a titles meme?
Came part and parcel with the idea for the story: 5 Times Jordan McKee Killed Nathan Wuornos. Ha. Ha. Hahahaha. House Divided, the minute I knew I wanted to write a sequel. Down. Sky Haven pretty much WAS the inspiration for that one, and I didn't want to call it that because I already had Cape Haven, but I didn't have any other ideas and it was so intimately connected I couldn't bring myself to do anything else.
Panic stations! The fic is ready to post/I have to post this tomorrow and I don't have a title: Cape Haven. I hate that I had to call it that. Gotta be a better freakin' name for a superhero AU out there. Also Men Fear to Tread... I was still debating the title as I posted.
I have to call it something and it might as well be that: Redemption of Killers and Rogues acquired that title really early on and nothing better ever came up. Trail of Evidence. Breathe. Most of the meme ones. A lot of the pinch hits and fic exchange ones.
LordKingBadTitle: The Great Looney Tunes Caper of 2010 sucks donkey balls. Most of my One Piece titles are bad because the fics were written for the anonmeme and often didn't have titles originally, and generally I think I was having a sucky patch with titles.
Loaners (suggested by my beta reader/my mum/some guy I accosted on the street/the cat): Katta suggested Il Seraglio for the Luffy-trying-to-get-Sanji-out-of-the-harem fic.
Title that makes me glee like an idiot: Eurydice's Adventures in the Underworld, Trigger, and Pinocchio is Bleeding. Maybe 5 Times Jordan McKee Killed Nathan Wuornos, but not because it's clever, just because it makes me snigger. Mister Niska and the Ancient Art of Marriage Counselling. William the Bloody Useless and the Beaker of Doom? Back on a serious note, Theatre of the Absurd (which is also both darkly punny and integrally connected to the story's early inspiration).
Punny: Twisted was meant to be a play on Tangled. I guess Pinocchio is Bleeding and Trigger are punny, in a dark way. Containment Integrity. Stone Cold Killer. The Naked Truth... suddenly I'm realising I have more of these than I thought.
One worders that don't suck: I think Trigger is fucking genius. :P Silencer isn't bad and Unbreakable, Risen and Desperation are all titles I'm happy with. Waxwork is an old one I'm really happy with. (Fix sucks, though. Inertia sucks. And most of the Firefly titles suck - I came up with them all in too short a time frame.)
Best attempt to break AO3's character limit: Four Times Nathan or Duke got Caught in the Crossfire (& one time they didn't) is the wordiest. But I'm often fairly wordy.
Working title alternatives and "You can't call it that"s: I wanted the third installment of Unbreakable to be The Death of Nathan Wuornos, but after due mocking it's going to be Shattered. Pinocchio is Bleeding was a major, MAJOR "can I really call it this?" almost throughout the whole process, but it did get called that. Sea Change II was that for so long that I literally couldn't bring myself to name it anything else by the time it came to posting. Dwight Hendrickson and the Tigers From Mars got a lot of squinty-eyed looks but as soon as I thought of that it was doomed, DOOMED to be called that. There's no way I was changing it.
What does it meeeaaan?: Winter's Flotsam is the debris left after the snow melts. I am/was pretty sure. But googling it doesn't help much.
Literary Allusions/Song titles: I don't do the song titles (or lyrics, I think?) thing. Oh, wait, I do have one: Comfortably Numb. Scuppered by Pink Floyd. The Sky is Falling is the name of a science fiction book by Lester del Rey that I read multiple times as a teenager.