Me vs. Titles

[evilmissbecky]

I have made an executive decision. From now on, every story I post is going to be called “Untitled.”

I hate coming up with story titles. I’m terrible at it. Titles stop me dead in my tracks, every time. (The lone exception to this was my Big Bang story, which had its title even before I wrote a single word - I was that inspired by the song that

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[lil_shepherd]

I feel your pain. (Except I don't post WIPs) But we all, I think, have trouble with titles. I generally have a working title, simply so I have a file name, but there have been times when I never got to change a working title and I still don't like it thirty years later...

Remember that you can change the title on a work in progress (though it is courtesy to mark it 'formally known as...' to stop people being confused.

(There was also the time Ina and I went on a kick of using Latin quotes as titles and one of those had three different versions in the quotation dictionaries and I, of course, had to pick one that was totally wrong. Luckily, there were people in that fandom who did Latin at school...)

[evilmissbecky]

I do that too, having a working title. Not that it's anything I could actually use though. For instance, And Show You the Stars had the working title of "Avengers Orion." :-D

and I, of course, had to pick one that was totally wrong.

D'oh! Dontcha love it when that kind of thing happens?

Speaking of posting, did you post your Tony and Pepper e-mail story and I missed it, or has that not happened yet?

[lil_shepherd]

Yes, it's up on AO3.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/598523

I ought to have linked it from avengers_2k but somehow, what with one thing and another...

[ro_anshi]

Current Music:Coldplay -- A Whisper

I approve of this music. My #1 go-to Music to Write By is the Coldplay catalogue.

They and their song titles are very inspirational to me, FWIW.

[evilmissbecky]

OMG why are you still awake? Bad Ro!

Also yes. Coldplay is very good for that sort of thing. :-)

[ro_anshi]

Not STILL awake. Middle-of-the-night insomnia. I'll hit the sheets and try for a few more hours shortly.

Para, Para, Paradise.....

(The MX comic is coming out next month, BTW. Yay! New fandom subset!)

[lilacs_roses]

Yeah, I'm late /chuckle.

I've seen people who do the 'Untitled' a lot and the best one was someone who did it in a way that they were pretty easy to keep track of by doing something like "Untitled 02134" or, I think, if they were working from some sort of a table "Untitled 01234-5" (the "5" being table 5).

You might want to give that a shot. Sometimes I just put "TBA" (To Be Announced) as I'm writing and the title will come to me later and I'll go back and change it. Not sure if I've left anything, or much of anything, as just "Untitled".

/huggs.