Do You Title Your Chapters?

[ozma914]

Titling chapters, instead of numbering them, has mostly gone away in fiction, but it's still a thing in non-fiction. The only novel I put chapter titles in was The No-Campfire Girls, and I had great fun doing it. But that was self-published; I'm not sure I'd try it with an agent/publisher hunt.

(We don't literally hunt agents and publishers, by

Comments

[kazzy_cee]

I like titles for chapters. The book I’m reading now has them but you’re right - they usually only have numbers on the whole.

[ozma914]

Maybe the publishers should start a poll!

[curiouswombat]

I kind of vary - sometimes it's fun to give the chapter's titles and sometimes I can't be bothered.

But as a reader I rather like them - if only because, using myself as a frame of reference(!) I think it shows the writer has taken the time to come up with them :)

[ozma914]

There is that!