Title

[Scott]

I want to hear about your process of how you chose your awesome book title. :-)

[Sheena]

I thought about the story for months before I started writing it. It was what I'd think about before I went to sleep, or when I was bored in traffic.

Then one day, kind of out of the blue, the first chapter fell into my head. Basically word for word of what it is now. Every word was a surprise, SO different than what I planned. I don't know why or where it came from, it just felt like magic. And I grew up knowing you have to trust magic.

The title came right after the first chapter. I didn't come up with it, I remembered it. That probably doesn't make any sense. FUNNY TRAGIC CRAZY MAGIC is just what it always was, since before I typed the first word down. I played with commas for a while there, calling it Funny, Tragic, Crazy, Magic, and Funny Tragic, Crazy Magic. But commas confuse me on occasion, so I decided to ditch them.

It wasn't really a process as much as it was trusting my subconscious, or wherever story ideas come from.

I do have a process for choosing titles when it doesn't just fall into my head, which is basically I choose the most awesome thing about a story and simplify it into one or two words.

Thanks Scott.