Trying to compute the optimum Shaelin title from this... You Too Can Be Wolves With Birds In Your Mouth

@ShaelinWrites

3 жыл бұрын

you see me more than i see myself

@some8998

3 жыл бұрын

@@ShaelinWrites Also a good title! 😀

@billyalarie929

3 жыл бұрын

This is the most Shaelin title ever conceived. It’s like a Shaelin bot was created for this purpose. Okay that’s weird and I apologize to you Shaelin, and honestly, everyone who sees this comment, now or in the future. Even a thousand years in the future. And yes, I’m keeping this up for posterity.

@MadailinBurnhope

3 жыл бұрын

this had me howling

@authorgreene

3 жыл бұрын

That's make a great title!

I love it when you're writing your book and one of the characters says something and you're like "holy shit, that's the title". I didn't see it coming but there it was.

@valhatan3907

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I love that thing as well! The *"When one character of the book itself says the book's title"* always gave chill. Idk, it's just weird parallel.

@YTEdy

3 жыл бұрын

@@valhatan3907 I agree, it's very cool anytime there's a kind of synchronicity in the story telling, like a character's name and I look up the original meaning of the name and it's a perfect fit. That kind of everything fitting together is one of my favorite parts of writing.

@YTEdy

Жыл бұрын

@jackie Fair enough, but do you get that feeling when you read the title in a book? I've since changed the title again. I've changed it like 8 times, but I think the newest title is here to stay. It paints a picture of the story in 6 words. I'm pretty set with this new title.

I wrote a short film called 'Flirting with Violence' and it's still one of my favourite titles I've ever come up with

@malikrizwan817

3 жыл бұрын

I'm from Pakistan. Can you help me in understanding English literature? I'm student of English literature. I will be thankful to you!

@aaronjanusch6090

3 жыл бұрын

My book is called Rat Bastard Jack. I love it.

@boswcheydoesart1314

2 жыл бұрын

YYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Shaelin: "And to those people, good for you." Me: "Thank you Shaelin."

i have a short story that had some honey, waspish, bee-related imagery in it, and a theme of like gossip and backstabbing and social climbing and someone who attained success through betrayal, kind of. and the original title was 'queen bee' (bleh. not the worst title ever, but not great.) i ended up changing it to 'buzzwords' and the moment it clicked into place was like... hello, i have seen the light!! it very rarely happens to me but it's my favourite story title i've ever come up with

@ShaelinWrites

3 жыл бұрын

Okay we LOVE a pun title, that's brilliant!

“The Best Thing That Can Happen to a Croissant” by Pablo Tusset certainly grabbed my attention. Two favorites that jump to mind are “Woman on the Edge of Time” by Marge Piercy and Ian McGregor’s “If No One Speaks of Remarkable Things.” I always start with the title - it usually comes to me with the story idea.

@wonderlust1308

3 жыл бұрын

"The Best Thing That Can Happen to a Croissant" - I'd buy this book because it makes me think of the Vine "Stop... I coulda dropped my croissant!"

@DianeShugart

3 жыл бұрын

* Jon, not Ian (autocorrect sometimes baffles me)

@YTEdy

Жыл бұрын

@@DianeShugart Autocorrect is like the dumbest kid in class who's always correcting people smarter than them.

MY FAVOURITE WRITING TOPIC! been brainstorming some life hacks for titles since I love them very much and this video is inspiring me to finish off that list!

@ShaelinWrites

3 жыл бұрын

oh I need these hacks you are the title queen👑👑plz take your crown

I was just thinking about "I have no mouth and I must scream" and you mentioned it haha it's one of my favorite titles

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, All The Light We Cannot See, and No One Belongs Here More Than You are all books I've picked up solely because of the titles and to this day they're some of my favorite books

@authorgreene

3 жыл бұрын

Those all have such memorable titles. A lot of people who haven't even read those books know the titles.

As a chess player I love your title “Zugzwang”. Immediately I was intrigued by what kind of situation your characters are in that call for that term. Tbh your titles are always on point and share the quality of raising intrigue. Plus who doesn’t love titles that are like easter eggs and possibly lurk within the story somehow. You don’t get that with titles like “home”

I just now finished my second book and I’m so happy and excited about it! It’s just a first draft, and it’s a little under 73k words. I only have a joke working title for it: “Fruity! The Romcom” and I’m looking at it wondering when or how I’ll give it a real title. So that’s what this video is for! Fantastic timing lol

@ShaelinWrites

3 жыл бұрын

Haha I love hearing people's joke working titles!!

I have a book idea I'm holding out for several years until I'm good enough to write it, and when happened for me was that I knew inside that it had to be one word, and something glorious and majestic sounding, as well as unforgettable and iconic. I strung together a couple root words, and after several hours over a couple days of trial and error I found it. Can't share it here, of course, but thats how I created a title recently.

@ShaelinWrites

3 жыл бұрын

That is also a really good technique for brainstorming titles!

ooh this is exciting! i have a lot of trouble with titles lol

@ShaelinWrites

3 жыл бұрын

They can be SO hard !

For some reason I want to title my work “Let Me Eat Cake.” But then I debate over whether it’s dumb. I struggle with titles.

@iiiiitsmagreta1240

3 жыл бұрын

I think that's an excellent title myself - deeply relatable, as I, too, want to eat cake always.

@authorgreene

3 жыл бұрын

You could retitle it something like "Drool & Cake." It contains the same concept but twists it into a something you're probably going to need to read. Feel free to use it if you like.

@filipsmit5497

Жыл бұрын

Haha! Good one! “Let Me Eat Cake” (And Have It). Also suggests what the Germans would call “Kummerspeck” hinting at some small tragedy in the back story…

Among literary novels, these are ones that I bought primarily by the strength of their titles: "Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist" by Sunil Yapa, "We Ride Upon Sticks" by Quan Barry, "An Elderly Lady Up to No Good" by Helene Thurston, "How Much of These Hills Is Gold" by C. Pam Zhang Granted I've only read one out of four, but it get books onto the reading pile! There's also a phenomenon of seeing a book that has such a killer title but the story just doesn't live up to it. I resent "Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You" because I found it to be a mediocre book but I covet that title for myself.

A title i remember immediately grabbing my attention was The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, it’s long but sets up so many questions. On the opposite end of the spectrum, the Canadian edition of Hamnet is called Hamnet & Judith and I actually like that title less; I feel like Hamnet on its own works better because it already has connotations because of the similarity to Hamlet, and adding the Judith part diminishes that impact and, to someone just seeing the cover for the first time, actually kind of presents more of a romance?

@authorgreene

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with your assessment on Hamnet & Judith. Hamnet would just grab my attention more.

Awesome topic! I'm the same, titles just pop into my head. I try not to worry too much about it and trust that I'll come up with something good. The novel As I Lay Dying I think has one of the all time great titles.

Thank you for the video! I'm the kind of person that gets title ideas for novels or short stories and then never get stories for them. But some of my favourite book titles are: 1. Radio Silence, Alice Oseman 2. The Sun Is Also A Star, Nicola Yoon 3. Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng 4. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 5. This Song Will Save Your Life, Leila Sales While making this list, I realised what you meant by how one word titles can be less impactful if the word itself is not very catchy. I'm scanning through my bookshelf trying to find a book with a good one word title, but can't. Pareidolia is a title I absolutely love, though!

@ShaelinWrites

3 жыл бұрын

Those are all so good !!

I keep thinking about Akwaeke Emezi's forthcoming romance novel "You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty", after a lyric in a Florence & the Machine song!

@ShaelinWrites

3 жыл бұрын

Akwaeke Emezi is AMAZING at titles!!

This was the best video on titles I have seen so far! So many helpful and practical tips that go beyond "look what's common in your genre". Thanks!

“We who are about to” by Joanna Russ is one of my all-time favourites. I think it’s so clever that it’s the phrase you automatically complete in your head that tells you something about the story. (I don’t really like the book that much though!)

Shaelin, I wanted to thank you for your video on titling your book. What you said has tremendously helped me make a simple title that resonates with people and is easy to remember and is short and sweet. I also finally realized that the title isn't about what I want but what the potential readers will be interested in based on what the title causes the potential readers to think of when they read the title in a quick glance. So thank you. I also made a list of titles and everyone liked the same one title that I went with that is five words long.

I love Christopher Paulinis title To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

@ShaelinWrites

3 жыл бұрын

Ohh that's so pretty and lyrical!

@leech1355

3 жыл бұрын

Alliteration in titles ❤️

@billyalarie929

3 жыл бұрын

Paolini*

Some great advice here. The title for my book (see name) took me a long time. Thanks for making the video.

💜Thank you💜!!! For you're providing me with everything I need to know.

The third book in my upcoming trilogy has a dual meaning that makes me smile. The MCs and cover art point to it meaning one thing, but really, you find out in the last sentence (epilogue excluded) what I was going for.

My favourite titles are rather unrelated to the content, or only marginally related -- mostly songs, I feel they (un)relate title to content much better than books. One of my favourites is _What Sound Does a Mastodon Make?_ by The Fall of Troy. Mathcore in general had some very unrelated titles that just get me going so much better than descriptive or fancy titles. Both bird titles: _Delicate Edible Birds_ and _Mouthful of Birds_ are reminiscent of this. _Failure In The Process Of Identifying A Dream_ by Ion Dissonance is a magnificent title too, some other titles by them: _Oceanic Motion; The Girl Nextdoor Is Always Screaming; Shut Up, I'm Trying To Worry; You're Not Carving Deep Enough; Play Dead… And I'll Play Along; Lecturing Raskolnikov (Or How To Properly Stab An Old Widow); A Prelude Of Things Worse To Come_ (ironically this is the _last_ track in the record!); _This Is Considered Mere Formality; You People Are Messed Up; After Everything That's Happened, What Did You Expect?_ and so on and so forth.

I like titles that make you feel compelled to read the book just to see what the title is talking about lol. Like "If on a winter's night a traveler", "The catcher in the rye" and "Satantango".

The title is the cherry on top. I can never find the right one. But it looks sweet when it on top of the sundae when I do.

Shaelin, I feel like titles are more important than book covers. The title of a book catches my attention before I take note of the cover design. The story itself may have some lovely titles that can be used. My award-winning short story, Ambition and Rejection is titled the way it is because of the ideas the story explores as well as the hopes and fears that run along the journey. All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr is a beautiful work of literary historical fiction and I love how the title directs readers to the symbolism in the story. The novel I am currently writing revolves around the power of nature. One of my favorite short story titles for a story that I wrote is The Tree of Exposure. I love you

One of the titles that I came up with was when he night arrives. I love it

Thank you so much for this video

@billyalarie929

3 жыл бұрын

That Raymond Carver story has absolutely ruined my life.

@authorgreene

3 жыл бұрын

Out of all those wonderful books, my favorite is Satantango. Great compounded one-word title. And an amazing novel. I also like the title of his collection Seiobo There Below.

@dorottyacseresnyes2738

3 жыл бұрын

@@authorgreene absolutely agree!

The first title of a book I thought of was Tell the Wolves I’m Home and then you mentioned it! I think of this book all the time and a big part of it is because the title is so memorable to me.

Titles come easily to me, but I have had a couple of them change based on how the story evolves. My favorite short story title of mine that was published is Asleep in Tall Grass. Others I like that were published are Dead Ends and Normal People.

I am terrible at writing titles a lot of the time and works will sit, orphaned, because the titles suck so badly I don't want to risk them dying, unread. Someday, someday. (Maybe that will be my next title!) I get turned off by titles more often than I am turned on by them. The worst was "Writing Down the Bones" by Natalie Goldberg. I resisted that book literally for YEARS yet when I finally read it, I cried when I finished it and started over. I think your "Honey Vinegar" is a brilliant title, by the way. New subscriber here, happy to find you!

I remember the baby Shaelin video on Titles. We love to see growth 🖤

I'm on the team of titling before writing too much of it. It helps me wrap my head around the story, feels like something solid after I do. I wrote a fanfic called Say Goodnight Before You Leave, and I can't remember why I titled that but it worked. My favorites of mine are The peculiarities of wrath, Death as Seen from Above, and Max is gonna die tonight. But I have a title dear to my heart that is just Hoverfly, even being one word since is not a very talked about insect, I thought it could stand on its own.

One of my favorite titles is a short story I wrote called Devon's Reckoning. It's about a guy who is having a very hard depressive episode and contemplates the nature of his own death, especially if self-inflicted

One of my favourite titles of a book I recently read was 'You Were Never Really Here' by Jonathan Ames. I haven't read it yet, but I definitely bought 'Sharks in the Time of Saviors' by Kawai Strong Washburn because of its title (it also has a gorgeous cover)

I didn't know Tanya Tagaq wrote a book, I will need to check that out!

@ShaelinWrites

3 жыл бұрын

It's incredible!!

Yaaas love it every time you pull out our beloved History of Wolves. Not only is that a fantastic title but the way it manifests in the story is actually quite...irrelevant and throwaway, which makes me love it even more because it means there’s like, a double meaning or some kind of depth I’m missing at first glance

@ShaelinWrites

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly that title was such a power move on Emily Fridlund's part. She really said "I'm going to write a book called History of Wolves and the book won't be about wolves at all." Queen.

@leech1355

3 жыл бұрын

@@ShaelinWrites The audacity 😂 👑

@billyalarie929

3 жыл бұрын

@@leech1355 I have a story I’m working on called “The Audacities”. No clue what it’s about yet but I like taking a phrase (like “the audacity of some people” or whatever) and then cutting it off at a point that makes it hard to see after awhile not only what the original phrase was (even if it’s painfully obvious), but also what the original phrase could even mean, or even the operative word IN the phrase.

I use to be soo good at coming up with titles some times I get so distracted when it comes to coming up with titles that I create a list, but now it's so hard to come up with them and now I just label my WIPs "Project: summarized concept" for example my current WIP is Project: Remember My Voice. And the core concept of that novel is "when a musician loses access to their music and nobody believes that it's their sound"

@chesspiece4257

Жыл бұрын

Umm remember my voice is a great title???

I write a lot of short stories, and I like titles that when you hear the title, automatically think you've heard it (maybe because you have, as some of them share names with other media, or common phrases). 'A Kiss Before Dying', 'The Last Moments Of Light', 'When It All Comes Down', 'Why Speak, I Have No Voice?', 'The Night You Went Missing', and 'Lilies At Dawn' are some of my favorites.

Love your videos. I have a-ha moments with all of them. Thank you for spreading your knowledge

I always get so much out of your videos. Thanks.

omg I adore titles but hate titling my own work so I always put it off for as longgg as possible. but some of my fav titles are A RIVER DIES OF THIRST by Mahmoud Darwish and THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone :)

@ShaelinWrites

3 жыл бұрын

These are both SO GOOD

I read Fruit of the Drunken Tree (bc of you lol) and I love the title! I also like Call Me by Your Name, i like how they both sound.

Favorite one word titles: HOWL by Alan Ginsburg. DUNE by Frank Herbert. FEED by MA Anderson. (Even HAMLET by WS is an unforgettable and unique title). I love children's picture book title MONSTER MAMA by Liz Rosenberg, Stephen Gammel. (Not what you're expecting for little kids). Ban This Book by A. Gratz. No Plot? No Problem! by Chris Baty. Your Robot Dog Will Die, by A. Greenwood.

@authorgreene

3 жыл бұрын

Those are all great one-word titles you shared there! And all favorite of mine to boot! I haven't ran across anyone who's read Feed in years, so that's also very cool. Someone above mentioned another favorite one-word book of mine: SATANTANGO by László Krasznahorkai. I really recommend it. Excellent book. Exquisite writing.

Thank you for this video. I think the reason why "Delicate Edible Birds" is so interesting is because it invokes 2 separate pairs of contrasting connotations. The first contrast in connotations is between "delicate" and "edible". "Delicate" implies that something should not be touched, let alone eaten, while "edible" carries the connotation of being easily consumed in the mouth. The second contrast is between "edible" and "birds". While birds are clearly edible, normally when we are referring to food, we would use uncountable food-nouns, such as "beef", "pork" or "ham". By contrast, the countable plural noun "birds" invokes the connotation of live, flying animals, which feels wrong to eat. Hence, those two contrasts of what the mind makes us imagine, makes the title interesting, similar to "Honey Vinegar" (sweet and sour at the same time). How do you find the title "Somewhere Between Light and Time"? It is a magical realism book.

this could not be more timely for me!

I absolutely love the title of a YA novel that i read recently which was Frankly in Love because it has an excellent double meaning

From other titles Cure for Wellness is awesome, The Silence of the lambs my beloved, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Horse and His boy from The Chronicles of Narnia, The knife of Never Letting Go. And a Brazilian novel that translates to The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (then titled Epitaph of a Small Winner).

Thank you so much for this.

I love the titles of Hillary Waugh, as "Last Seen Wearing" or "Run when I say: Now!". As for me, some of my projects have very specific titiles as "Crinoline" or "Siochan" /shee-han/ but there are others like "Why Us?", "Sea of glass", "Home of the Brave" or "This is Harp One"

I was thinking about this a few weeks ago and I've started writing down titles AND COVER DESCRIPTIONS for books that I've come across that I had to pick up, if only to see what they were about (romance genre mostly): First You Try Everything, Rubbing One Out (lol), Badge Bunny, ...

I personally love one word titles, i'm not sure why though it might be that they're more common in fantasy (which is almost everything I read). It could also be that it just feels more like a title to me instead of a sentence

@ShaelinWrites

3 жыл бұрын

In fantasy you get lots of super cool words so I can see why they'd work really well!

One of the best books I've read in the last couple years was "1979" by Val McDermid. For me the title was more than good enough to prompt me to carry the book to the cashier and buy it because I'm intrigued by the events, culture, writing machines and the general atmosphere of the late 1970s. This applies to songs as well...I love the song "1974" by Amy Grant...

My current book has a title that was drawn together by a lyric in a song. Since then I like the idea of taking a lyric from a song and turning it into a book title.

I love this channel so much!!

True story: I was really confident with my original title for a book I was writing, The Destined. The day after Shaelin posted this, I noticed how ironic it was how obsessed my book is with the themes of irony and paradoxicality and the title didn't reflect that. I retitled it The Scar Came from Destiny. The first half has been published on Amazon as its own book, and in fact the Kindle version will be free from Thanksgiving to November 29, 2021. Feel free to check it out if you're seeing this. You have plenty information already. By the way, since then I've titled two short story spinoffs of SCD, My Fanged Screams and Die with Honor. I return to this video constantly for more ideas, and in fact I have three more spinoffs I need to title and I'll be sure to visit!

I like one word titles and consider it a lot in my poems and short stories: for example ¡¿WHY?!, Checkmate, Jesus, Skin and so on...

@ShaelinWrites

3 жыл бұрын

These are all really cool one word titles!! I love ¡¿WHY?!, I didn't mention it in the video, but I love titles that utilize punctuation in a creative way, since it's something you don't see too often. Like Swamplandia! by Karen Russell, or Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine.

@martybadin6127

3 жыл бұрын

@@ShaelinWrites Yes, U know, it´s like who doesn´t wanna know ¡¿WHY?!...

Some of my favourite book titles: All the Light We Cannot See A Thousand Splendid Suns Till We Have Faces The Once and Future King The Remains of the Day Their Eyes Were Watching God Fire From Heaven Funeral Games A Fire Upon The Deep A Doctrine of Labyrinths If On a Winter's Night a Traveller The People of the Dark (I haven't read most of these books, but the titles always stuck in my mind) I love titles so much I have a whole word document (subdivided by category) dedicated just to titles (that mostly come from poems). Sometimes I come up with a title that's so good it suggests a whole story by itself.

I often have a title before I've finished the story. It's fun and fairly easy for me. Sometimes my titles are better than the story! If that's the case, it doesn't cross an editor's desk until the story meets the artistry of the title. Some titles of my own work (only because you asked): -Descriptions of Heaven -Viagra for a Pariah - Medea Naked on the Golden Fleece -A New Kind of Mother -88 “Spice Up Your Date” Shimmer Palette -Aunt Phyllis is Yours This Christmas - When the Dog Gets Ready to Die -Beyond the Blue Curtain All of these are published pieces. I'd love to hear your thoughts on any of them nonetheless, Shaelin!

the current working title of my verse novel is "A Brace of Sulphur Crests"; I've been through three or four as my story and style has evolved, but I think it's the closest to "right" so far

Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman have some great titles. Good Omens, Guards! Guards!, The Ocean at the End of the Lane. I also love This Is How You Lose the Time War.

@junebunchanumbers

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe the best one word title I can think of is Pratchett's Thud! It's a good strong word, simple, effective, it suggests violence that could tonally take any form from brutal to more comedic, the exclamation mark is nice and attention-grabbing. It's the name of an in-universe strategy board game tied to the broader themes of the novel, so it's significant in that way, and it also shows up a few times in the text as a noun.

One of my favorites (and also my favorite book in general) is I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson! The title comes from inside the book and once you get to that part, you're like, "Ohhh, that's what that means!"

@ShaelinWrites

3 жыл бұрын

I love that book and that title!! I remember the title was the first thing that caught my attention!

“when i hear that as a title, i have no questions” thats a great way of putting it!! a title should make you at least think, “WHY is that the title? what does that mean for this story?” i was alway insecure about titling and whenever i ask for feedback on title options, i sometimes feel like if i have to explain why it makes sense thats probably not a good title on its own. but its totally the opposite-if a person whos never read my story doesnt have any questions about the title, why would they want to read it! my favorite titles are from the gallagher girls franchise, since theyre just so clever and made me pick up the books! plus each individual title does relate to the story. like: -id tell you i love you but then i’d have to kill you -don’t judge a girl by her cover -only the good spy young they’re just the right amount of cheesy and intriguing to me anajkskskd

I'm currently writing one called 'You Only Die Twice'. To give context, the main character dies on her way to a parallel universe and lives on as a ghost trying to get enough magic to get herself a body and go home. She manages to do so at about half the book, then realizes that she is losing everything she built a second time by changing worlds again and goes back. The title is significant for several reasons - first off, the world she arrives in and decides to stay in is much more dangerous than the one she came from, and even as a ghost she has to struggle not to die a second time - but also, she realizes that she was able to rebuild this time, but that losing everything again is not something she would recover from.

My favorite title from my books is Christmas Train Home. It's my one book which gets sales yearly.

The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven--Sherman Alexie.

"St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" by Karen Russell is one of my favourite titles of all time. Even though it's a long one, I never struggle to remember it.

my favorite way to title works is to let them key the reader into the setting of my piece. my favorite title of mine is for poem called “Somewhere on the Island of Andros”

I don't know about you but recently I'm reading these two books, The Ephemeral:Breeder by Erica Gallegos and Bearheart by MMicheleWilly. They are my absolute fave 👌strong female character esp the first book and just I love Ericas writing along with her character arcs.They're on wattpad and even though you don't read there as often..if ever, try them out :)

Great video!

I named my current short story project by it referencing the antagonist of the story

@ShaelinWrites

3 жыл бұрын

Ohhh very cool idea!

@unicorntomboy9736

3 жыл бұрын

@@ShaelinWrites I am basing my story on the Monster Hunter games, since I always wanted to tell my own story with my own original protagonist within that fictional fantasy universe.

@billyalarie929

3 жыл бұрын

Lord of the Rings is this :-)

@unicorntomboy9736

3 жыл бұрын

@@billyalarie929 I am thinking of naming my story "Amber Fangs of the Mountains".

I don't usually have a hard time coming up with titles. My own stories tend to be in the old adventure novel style because that's what they are. "The mysterious ore" - The one thing all the parties want to get their hands on because it holds UNLIMITED POWER!!! "The fall of Eldorado" - The story spawned by a throwaway line. I really wish I'd spent more care on the name of the Forbidden City. Which falls. "The Rainbow Hunters" - Hints at Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior, but also at the names of two important ladies in the story. "Fire from the Gods" - A reference to Greek Mythology. And then there's my fanfics. "The Therapeutic Use Of Pretty Girls In the Treatment Of Aquaphobia" - I made that specially to sound like the title of someone's scientific thesis. "Nightly Shadows" - A series of people's thoughts in the night, a reference to "Die Gedanken sind frei." Which is about the freedom of anyone to think anything they want. I don't always keep my first title. Unlike character names. Once I have them, they are stuck.

Titles i've come up with that I like (for performance texts, or music, or whatever): Termite Back When I Couldn't Breathe The Sin Garden Unembellished Pixels Titles of other people's books that i like: Darkmans This Isn't The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Broken Monsters Thanks for the excellent video :)

OMG, I needed this video sooooo bad.

i either have the title before i even start properly planning out the story and know what's going to happen or i'm scrambling last minute to come up with something as im finishing the story (and probably not having anything) and there is no in between

5:30, i could see a book called Apple or blackberry or something and want to find out why more that I would with a sentence as a title, but that might just be me

My debut novel was/is named "Therapy is over" and it came just as I thought about the story. but I've been using it too much that has started to distort and I don't know if is a good title anymore lmao.

I’m a fan of ‘To Rise Again at a Decent Hour’ by Joshua Ferris

A long title I really like even if its so weird is: The Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society. When I read that title i inmediatly wanted to know more about it.

The title of my fantasy is 'the songbird and the dragon' but Idk if I really like it

Very awesome advice, I know I come up with good book titles. For example the title for my first book series I’m writing is titled Chronicles of Archaeiya . In the series I titled book 1 the great battle for amarykhanta: the rising darkness. For book 2 I titled the book tales of the old West: haunting legends of the superstition ancient mountains. I titled book 3 Ill fated voyage of fate So any thoughts and opinions on the titles of the first three books of my series, are they good

one of my favourite one-word titles is "Misery" and it could be so bad but it's perfect

there’s some almost imperceptible quality that makes a really memorable title, and i think it has to do with specificity and imagery. for example, two of my favorite titles are “at night all blood is black”, and “paul takes the form of a mortal girl”. these are all instantly memorable, have clear meanings within the text of the book, yet aren’t too obvious. each word in these titles are pulling their weight. another title that i really like, “the scapegoat” is essentially one word but uses an interesting word to evoke the naming conventions of older works (the idiot, the trial, etc.) in a way that really interests me as a reader. however, i don’t particularly click with something like “all the light we cannot see” or “tell the wolves im home”, because they seem too vague, i’m not left with any questions. these titles each only have one or two “operative” words, and they’re pretty generic. apologies for leaving such a long comment on a year-old video, but i’m happy to really figure out a formula for which titles i like and dislike. it’s intensely satisfying for me to vivisect titles like this. great video !!

How Hedly Hopkins Did A Dare, Robbed A Grave, Made a Friend Who Might Not of Been There at All And While He Was at it Committed a Terrible Sin Which Everyone Was Doing Even Though He Didn't Know It. Real title for middle fiction book which has stuck in my head for a decade

It’s been a journey of many working titles: But I’m thinking the names for my first two books are: The Call of the Zooligans And Youth Group - Faith the Size of Mountains

I can't stop thinking of titling my book "Moonlit Shadows". I came up with it when I was just a kid and I think I'm overly attached to it... But I'm not sure it's right. Hoping to brainstorm a better title!

I've changed the title of my novel four times, but I've settled on one that I like. My favorite novel titles are every book in the Twilight saga. Taboo titles with hidden meanings are fun.

A few titles I like: The Butt by Will Self The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin A Stranger Here Myself: Being the Life Story and Revelations of Mister Rab C. Nesbitt of Govan by Ian Pattison The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett Confessions of a Crap Artist by Philip K. Dick Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

I really like 'The Bluest Eye' by Toni Morrison. How can an eye be bluer than another, and above all, why would it matter? (Which is part of what the book is about)

All of Joe Abercrombie's books.... I mean, "The Trouble with Peace".... instant buy

I am really struggling that time I was finding what my title will be, but only one title that kept coming back in my mind but it's sounds not good in English so what I did, I translated it into Spanish. "El Comienzo Trajico" (The Tragic Start) I'm publishing it on Wattpad btw. Still in progress ❤

I'm currently struggling to come up with a title for a novel, mainly because the title I really wanted to use is already taken :(

Reading through the comments, I've become transfixed on 'When the Wake of Tides' as a possible title for my novel. It doesn't make sense, and it's an unfinished question, but it makes you wonder... how does that show up in the story? The current title is, simply, 'Essences', which is quite bland, but ties into the story much more overtly. But when I think of better titles, I can't, because the core theme is the essences within the people and their lives.

@filipsmit5497

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Love that title: “When the Wake of Tides”. Suggests that somethings will be laid barren and exposed in due time, like coastal soil at low tide.

Hi Shaelin have you ever had work published where they changed the title as a condition of publishing? Should one allow such a change with a work they want published? How hard should one fight for a title that publishers want to change? Thanks!

@ShaelinWrites

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This has never happened to me, but I've never published a novel, only short stories, where I don't think changing titles is as normal! I did have one time where an editor suggested a different title, but I didn't really like it, so we kept the one I'd had before.

@wrigleyextra11

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@@ShaelinWrites thanks! I work with just working titles because I expect someone might come up with something better.

I hate titling and naming characters. English not being my first language it takes the life out of me to name a character (I just go with normal names) and title is the worst, if I read those titles on a book even I won't read it XD lol. However, this helped me a lot so thank you very much. Btw, I Consider you my teacher as I have learnt a lot from you about writing and improved. Thank you for that because India doesn't have writing course.

Hi Shaelin