Saturday Night and I Ain't Got Nobody....

[said_scarlett]

It's Saturday night and I am sleepy and bored. I ran some errands, cleaned the stove, wrote a good bit, played some Sims and now I'm pretty much just vegging. I started my Fantasy Fest fic and it looks like it's going more in the direction of angst than fluff. But really, with the subject matter, I think it would be difficult to do it any other way.

This brings me to a question. I never can title my fics before I'm done with them. The only exceptions I can think of are 'Shelter From the Storm' and 'Mother is the Necessity of Affection'. Other than that, the titles are generally stuck on at the end after much wibbling and re-reading and worrying. I suck at titling. It's one of the hardest things for me. So: a poll on titling!

[Poll #564145]



Feel free to add any other information you feel like in comments. I'm really curious how other people go about titling fics, and with how little/much ease.

Comments

[sassyinkpen.livejournal.com]

Most of the time, a title just pops into my head while I'm writing, and even if I try to come up with something better, it will just stick. I've learned to go with that usually.

Fic title finding.

[secondsilk.livejournal.com]

I do that too, finding the title in the middle of writing. Often I'll get the idea and the plot and the start and end points, and then the title kind of changes the angle slightly.

I have occasionally found a title for a fic pretty much out of thin air,after I've finished the fic and it's all out of my head, and the title sort of fits in a way, so I go with that, because trying to find something witty which references something profound is just too much trouble (especially for my fic-soaked brain, I have little to pull quotes from).

I did title the chapters in a long fic with five to ten word summaries of the chapter's plot. These went down very well. I liked it because it was easy, and I could easily find where I had written certain scenes.

I do have several titles which still need fics written for them.

[theladyfeylene.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, yes, I know how that is. Though they rarely pop up while I'm writing!