Jam Session
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
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1. How do you usually develop one? and 2. At one point in the process do you usually find one?
I used to have a title as soon as I had a fic idea. They used to be full of double meaning, and if people got the deeper meaning of the title and how it fit in with the fic I was always happy. These days I can't think of titles at all. The fic is written and ready to post but I can't think of anything. These days it's a desperate last minute 'that will have to do' title and I really want the old days back!
3. Do you often poach from other titles/quotes from music, books, poems etc?
I didn't, but I'm getting to the point where my title mojo has been that badly eroded that it's my next stop :) I do like using quotes as LJ cut-text though, and I use quotes and lyrics sometimes as inspiration, so I guess using them as titles is the way to go.
4. What title are you most proud of? Why?
It's not that the title is the one I'm most proud of, I think it's more that the fic was the first one I was ever happy with. But I had the title 'Blind Faith' and that encompassed everything about the fic, faith in a friend, faith in an enemy, working blind without really knowing what was out there or who you should place your faith in.
5. What title were you never happy with? Why?
That list is rather long now as I don't really like any of my recent titles as they don't have that connection and the play on words that my older fics had. I suppose I should be happy that although the titles have worsened the fic has got better :)
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Writers likes words. It is not surprising that we get inspired by quotes or lyrics at times.
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