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Titles. Are. Very. Important.
A good title makes all the difference, but pulling a great one out of your brain can be seriously difficult. Seriously. Sometimes writers get lucky and the manuscript tells us its title. Mostly we say, “So I’m going to read this chapter of my manuscript that I’m calling *insert blah name here* for now, but I need a better title.”
That’s what we say.
The fabulous Rena Olsen invited me to join the terrible title blog hop. Since Rena is my Queen, I shall participate. If you don’t know her, well, do it, she’s very talented and a great friend. And referred to me as an angel with a dark and twisted soul… which makes me love her more.
So, the point of this blog is to scroll through my manuscript of choice and stop in random places, creating titles from whatever words I find.
Let’s step into my book DOORS…
1. Live in a Cage
2. Surviving wasn’t Enough
3. Eee-cree
4. Cal’s Mountainous Form
5. I Don’t Care
6. An Interesting Story
7. I Want to be a Hero
8. Desperate Sadness
Gee. Now I’ll definitely go back and retitle it I Don’t Care, I mean really that grabs the essence of the story.
Or Cal’s Mountainous Form? Oh good heavens. I am ashamed.
Eee-Cree makes me giggle because the character, a four-armed fur-ball, is special to me. I love him.
I’m supposed to tag people, but I don’t know who. So sue me. IF you read this and think… HOW FUN! Do it!
Emma?
Natasha?
Anyway, I’m off to school to see my daughter read a poem she wrote for the Veterans Day celebration. It’s a darn good poem, kids. I was shocked. Especially, since she told me that she scribbled it down cause she HAD to. And now the poor girl has been chosen to read it aloud … in front of people!
Kathleen Palm 
It’s funny that I came across this today because I just changed (temporarily) the title of my book to something that makes me cringe.
The thing is, I’m over on Wattpad–which is a site for unpublished authors to post their books for free and get a following (hopefully). But it’s frequented by a LOT of teenagers and pre-teens.
And–obviously–the most important thing is getting people to pick up your book out of the thousands Wattpad has to choose from. At any rate, I noticed that any book with the words “Bad Boy” in the title did REALLY well on the site–like five million to thirty million reads–which is crazy. (especially the thirty million)
So I decided to try it. I changed the title of my book from Skipping Time to The Bad Boy in Disguise and my reads jumped quite a bit. I think they’ll just continue going higher. So yes–title is VERY important–but it’s also REALLY important to keep your demographic in mind.
Although, having said that, if I ever self-publish this book, I’m definitely going with the original title. haha
Haha! Bad boys are cool.
Hey, I LIKE Doors! It’s intriguing and there are a lot of doors in the story. I vote for Doors. And the best poems are written quickly, because they HAD to be written. See if she’ll let you read it at Scribes.
I like Doors too! And I’ll see if I can steal the poem to read.
LOL Oh this is gonna be fun! I’m on it like a BOSS!
YES! Can’t wait to read them.
I find coming up with titles to be difficult so I don’t title my chapters. Finding a title for the book is tricky enough!
That’s great about your daughter and her poem. Like mother like daughter. 🙂
I love titles. But they are hard. And I’ll have to post her poem.
LOL at Cal’s mountainous form and aww at Eee-cree, I love that stinky little fluff ball. Great post and yup, I’m so up for it!!
Creech is awesome. And can’t wait to read yours!
Eee-cree. Hands down. I’m not sure why you would pick anything else.
You are absolutely correct.
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