Jam Session

[elliotsmelliot]

Hello again! I hope everyone has been having a great summer (or in you're in the Southern hemisphere - a tolerable winter!) After a mini-hiatus, we're about to get started here at the Quill again with our weekly posts and challenges. Thanks to everyone who volunteered to lead a discussion this month and later on

Comments

[angela_weber]

I love 'We Saw the World Explode' for a title! It's so suggestive and powerful and it really makes me excited for the fic. The HP title is great, too. That's a quote from Scrimgeour, right? I think that may be one of the few scenes I really loved in HBP.

Titles are so hard. If I didn't have music to steal things from I don't know what I'd do--probably not post anything at all. ;)

[angela_weber]

lol--I should have known it couldn't be from HBP if it was that good. ;)

I will! It will probably be easier.

[elliotsmelliot]

Stockholm is complex is its simplicity. I adore the title for your big bang fic. It makes me think of the frequent exclamation of admiration in Shakespeare in Love, "Good title!" See Joseph Fiennes is good for something!

I am very intrigued with your original fic. I want to know more.

I had an exclamation mark in one of my titles - Slam!

[valhalla37]

Ooooooh, I loved 'Stockholm'. It says so much in so little.

'We Saw The World Explode' is fantastic, and gets me super excited, because if I'm not mistaken that's the title of your Charles/Eloise fic ...? Even if it isn't, I love the implications it has as a reset story.

[siluria]

I love the thought you put into your titles :) I wish I could get back to that place where I came up with titles easily and they were perfect. These days I'm a last minute kind of gal and they really aren't anything other than last ditch attempts to find something other than 'Untitled'

[angeldylan628]

I'm also struggling with an HP one shot entitled You may wear that scar like a crown which is a direct quote from the book but I think it's a lovely sentence about what Harry Potter, The Boy Who Lived, represented for all wizards and how he himself struggled with being the chosen one.

I love how one sentence like this one can make me want to write a whole bunch more HP fics right now even though I'm knee deep in other work.

I agree that original works need to have shorter titles. My first short story was titled something insanely long and abstract and my professor made me change it before she would have it published. Now every original piece I work on has one to three word titles and nothing more.

I really do admire the title you chose for your big bang fic. It fits so brilliantly with the scenario your exploring. It's both metaphorical and literal and just very lovely sounding.