What’s harder for you to come up with, book titles or character names?
Oh, please, GoofenDoodle. Character names are so easy. Fantasy names I can either slam together sounds until it feels right or lift something out of an article I’m reading and change a few letters. If I’m writing a fiction loosely based in this current reality, it’s called a phone book (For those of you under the age of 35, it’s that weird book that gets dropped yearly on your doorstep without you ordering it. It’s printed on newsprint paper, sometimes has magnets that have phone numbers or nifty slogans printed on them advertising certain companies… It’s the one you shove in the trash right after you pick it up or maybe you tear out the pages to start up a grill or maybe use to add some height on your furniture. No. Not the dictionary. I said the book that gets dropped in front of your door yearly.) Sometimes, I’ll even flip through a yearbook for names (A yearbook is a book you buy when you’re in school and it has names and pictures of all your classmates and… oh, nevermind).
Titles, on the other hand…
They’re not quite as bad as writing the pitch, tagline or brief synopsis. I’ll figure out a snazzy title, eventually. It just takes time. And if you’re someone who has read this blog frequently, you know that I’m a slow writer, so allowing my brain time to percolate a title or series of titles is possible. Provided that there isn’t any distra-
SQUIRREL!!!!
Where was I? Oh, yeah – Names are definitely easier than titles.
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