Friday, October 4, 2013

You don't read this part anyway

The only result is so much stress, pain, pressure, ending in a feeling of failure each time you try.  Just when you think you’ve accomplished it, you realize you’re wrong five seconds later.

It takes so much of your time and effort.  You just wish there was a way to make it easier.  You need a perfect title.

It is easy. 

Because it’s not important.

Okay, it’s barely important.

A title only needs to do three things: be a replacement for calling your work ‘document 1’, be something others can remember, an be appropriate for the story.

Still sounds difficult, huh?  Not if you look carefully at the criteria.

The first is easy.  Unless ‘Document 1’ works as a title, that means you can call your book nearly anything.  One problem solved.

Second is almost as easy.  Anything you can remember, others can remember—usually. Try it out on someone or on the internet.  You don’t have to tell anyone you’re going to use the title; there are several writing forums with random title suggestion threads or random idea threads.

Only the last one is difficult, but only until you’ve completely finished the story.  Once it’s edited and you know every bit about the finished piece would you know what’s appropriate and what’s not.


Don’t panic over being ‘perfect.’  If Moby Dick were called ‘The Adventures of Ishmael’ the story would be the same and the story is what’s important.  Isn’t it?

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