a visitor at any hour - I came up with this before I had even begun the fic. The phrase is meant to describe death. Also happens to be a phrase used in hospitals referring to immediate family, which I suppose is a nice connotation regarding Ike too.
There Are Three Ways to be Out in Dodgeball - A title devised after the fic was written. Aside from being a cute roundabout way to introduce the subject of the fic, I feel like it hints toward the conclusion.
In Questioning Ghosts - I struggled with finding a title for this one. Ultimately I think I came up with this title by mucking around with vague puzzle pieces. I kinda wanted it to have an over-the-course-of-doing-x vibe, and I also wanted it to focus on doubt, and I played with "In Questioning Spirits" and so on before I settled with "ghosts," in relationship to phrases like ghosts of the past.
New World - This title occurred to me very early in the ficwriting process though I forget exactly when. It was supposed to be a double-meaning, seeming to be about Latona's revolution, while it actually? also refers to Magvel being Ashera's new creation.
Coin in Palm - This was kind of a lazy title after I'd finished the fic, I think. It could be better. It's sort of a play on the idiom of having coin in your palm or something like that, to have wealth. But I suppose I also find the significance in the symbolic roles of hands. Hands do things. They help, they grasp, they give, they take.
Ghost Stories - I had been contemplating the title all throughout the course of writing this. I'd finished the story some 15 minutes before the contest deadline and was flailing about trying to come up with the title when traincat suggested this one. I like it a lot. On the surface it might refer to the bardic story Levin tells to Julia, but more deeply the tale itself is a bit of a ghost story in the sense that it's about a dead man haunting about the world with unresolved business. And considering that I'd originally introduced the bit about ghosts to draw parallels between Levin and ghosts, I like that the title reinforces that too.
lucius listens to the rain - It was a phrase that popped into my head roughly when I just knew how to approach this drabble, and so this became the working title/name of the odt. When it came time to actually title the story, I was much too attached to this title, and besides, I thought it was a terribly aesthetically pleasing one, aside from the silliness of using a character name in the title. (I just feel inherently silly about that, unless it's the name alone and the story is a portrait.)
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Date: 2012-09-18 04:12 pm (UTC)There Are Three Ways to be Out in Dodgeball - A title devised after the fic was written. Aside from being a cute roundabout way to introduce the subject of the fic, I feel like it hints toward the conclusion.
In Questioning Ghosts - I struggled with finding a title for this one. Ultimately I think I came up with this title by mucking around with vague puzzle pieces. I kinda wanted it to have an over-the-course-of-doing-x vibe, and I also wanted it to focus on doubt, and I played with "In Questioning Spirits" and so on before I settled with "ghosts," in relationship to phrases like ghosts of the past.
New World - This title occurred to me very early in the ficwriting process though I forget exactly when. It was supposed to be a double-meaning, seeming to be about Latona's revolution, while it
actually?also refers to Magvel being Ashera's new creation.Coin in Palm - This was kind of a lazy title after I'd finished the fic, I think. It could be better. It's sort of a play on the idiom of having coin in your palm or something like that, to have wealth. But I suppose I also find the significance in the symbolic roles of hands. Hands do things. They help, they grasp, they give, they take.
Ghost Stories - I had been contemplating the title all throughout the course of writing this. I'd finished the story some 15 minutes before the contest deadline and was flailing about trying to come up with the title when
lucius listens to the rain - It was a phrase that popped into my head roughly when I just knew how to approach this drabble, and so this became the working title/name of the odt. When it came time to actually title the story, I was much too attached to this title, and besides, I thought it was a terribly aesthetically pleasing one, aside from the silliness of using a character name in the title. (I just feel inherently silly about that, unless it's the name alone and the story is a portrait.)