Ah. I'd do this, but I have such a shit hand at titles that the good ones only come about by accident. But to answer your questions:
- I attempt to come up with something symbolic or, at the very least, something that contributes to the understanding of my story. When that inevitably fails, I default to pulling lines or phrases from the story that seem significant, or I search for quotes from vaguely relevant people/works/songs that might not sound like cop-outs. In the rare event I'm using a real theme (for example, one of Milton's works in my FE6 fic "A Masque for Dreaming") I will pull from the inspiration, and usually find something interesting.
- I start thinking about what my title is going to be while I'm still in the outline/word-vomit stage. Usually there's a list of likely candidates in the notes at the end of my text files.
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Date: 2012-09-21 02:40 am (UTC)- I attempt to come up with something symbolic or, at the very least, something that contributes to the understanding of my story. When that inevitably fails, I default to pulling lines or phrases from the story that seem significant, or I search for quotes from vaguely relevant people/works/songs that might not sound like cop-outs. In the rare event I'm using a real theme (for example, one of Milton's works in my FE6 fic "A Masque for Dreaming") I will pull from the inspiration, and usually find something interesting.
- I start thinking about what my title is going to be while I'm still in the outline/word-vomit stage. Usually there's a list of likely candidates in the notes at the end of my text files.