Title Bout, Round 2
The Book of Ecclesiastes laments "there is nothing new under the sun." Never have those words been so true for me as they have this past week. I came up with a few really good title candidates, only to find they failed "the Amazon test." That wonderful idea for your title phrase has been used before. A lot.
I remember Casey Kasem telling listeners there had been six different hit songs titled "Call Me" and about as many titled "Lady." Clearly that fact didn't discourage the writers of numbers 4-6, but it's pretty demotivating for me to discover that the name my brain struggled so valiantly to think up was already used a dozen times or more.
Very few authors end up having books with titles so distinctive they'll never be reused: "Gone With the Wind," "The Grapes of Wrath," and I know at some point I may have to draw a line somewhere and go with a name that's been used-but-not-overused. Yet I still hope to strike creative gold and think of something unique like "The Robot Pizza Conspiracy." Hmm...better go check that one out on Amazon....
I remember Casey Kasem telling listeners there had been six different hit songs titled "Call Me" and about as many titled "Lady." Clearly that fact didn't discourage the writers of numbers 4-6, but it's pretty demotivating for me to discover that the name my brain struggled so valiantly to think up was already used a dozen times or more.
Very few authors end up having books with titles so distinctive they'll never be reused: "Gone With the Wind," "The Grapes of Wrath," and I know at some point I may have to draw a line somewhere and go with a name that's been used-but-not-overused. Yet I still hope to strike creative gold and think of something unique like "The Robot Pizza Conspiracy." Hmm...better go check that one out on Amazon....
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