Titles

[queenlua]

There's a famous quip in compsciland: "There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things."The same thing totally applies to story-writing. (Well, the naming things part. Cache invalidation, not so much.) I think titles are hard, and I guess I'd like to blather about some of my title-ing adventures, and

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[rosage]

That bit about D&D is great. <3

[queenlua]

but rosaaaaage I really liked the title "Assembly" it was punny and great

also: re: "Frost Guardian": I totally thought of the Snowager from Neopets when I first saw this title, oops. (it's a good title, though! I just spent too much of my childhood swiping treasures from giant frostbeasts)

[rosage]

I liked it too in terms of punniness but when I think about in terms of it being THE title encompassing a fic I'd spent forever on it was a bit like 'why is this so silly,' you know? XD

--I totally didn't think of that and I spent my childhood swiping treasures from frostbeasts, too. :P

[quasigeek]

I'm jealous of your titling skills and your ability to have them actually mean something. I have this thing for short, to-the-point titles, and even before I read Crush I knew I would love it based on that. You really can't get a more perfect word for that, erm, relationship.