Finished my
do-me-veela fic and came in at 12k which is AMAZING for me. The only thing that saved this from turning into 50k of me fucking around is the fact that it has absolutely zero plot.
Okay let's talk about fic/fiction writing strategyI've gotten 4 inquiries on my writing process for Azoth now, which is just mind-blowing to me since I never felt like
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I like your post. I am terrible with titles. I had one all the way through for my Rubber duck fic and I found that SO comforting. Usually (my betas will back me up here) I am emailing them saying "a title? A TITLE????" about 10 mins before it is time to submit. Often I don't know wtf the story is about until I am right at the end. Then I go back and add bits in that fit with whatever theme seems to have developed, and the title might reflect that. 'Hungry' worked that way; as I wrote, Harry just developed this great, well, hunger for life, as well as a prodigious appetite, and I wanted to bring that out in the title.
Btw I meant to say before, Azoth is a way better title than Inner Alchemy.
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Thanks! What was your title before Rubber Duck? Or is it a secret?
I will start a titling service for fandom. Send me your summaries, I'll send you a title, haha.
Hungry was a good title!
YES, I AGREE. I love the word and it's the last word in the fic, so it feels right to me. The only angsting was because Azoth wasn't defined until really late in the story and it was a concern that it wouldn't make any sense. I just added the definition of the word "azoth" to the beginning like an epigraph and that solved that.
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<3
(with love. Thank you for titling my minifiest)
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Anyway, now my night is all messed up, but I shall return to this and tell you all about my methods. That seems like it might be more helpful than my random comment about titles followed by a prompt disappearance.
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