How to pick a good title/what makes a good title

[Lily]

Not if you just keep your mouth shut :)

[Thomas]

Well. I appear to be late to this party and all the good points have been taken. :P

I'm going to include a movie title here, but know this applies to the whole of naming anything. AE: Apocalypse Earth. Why in the hell would you even put "AE:" in front of it? It might as well have been named "Apocalypse Earth: Apocalypse Earth".

[Lily]

Thomas, we're not bashing bad titles lol Just chatting about how to choose a good title.

[Thomas]

Ah well then I feel dumb for bringing it up.

[Lily]

Dont feel that way, it was an entertaining rant lol

[Courtney]

...I liked that title, AE and all lolz. BUT I also thought Earthsea should have been called Searth so...

[Lily]

Nerds.

;)

[C.G.]

I just ran across a book titled: I Slept With Slender Man! I don't think you can get any more blatant than that. Lol

[Lily]

lol That works! lol

[Courtney]

Slender man!!!

Marble Hornets, Markiplier let's plays...Slender man you were a cool summer...

[Yzabel]

C.G. wrote: "I just ran across a book titled: I Slept With Slender Man! I don't think you can get any more blatant than that. Lol"

...Sounds almost as bad as "Getting Laid by the Golem."

[BK]

Personally, I like titles that are short and simple but allude to the book in a somewhat elusive way.

It's not easy thinking up titles, so when all else fails, I say you should go for wit and wordplay. It gets my attention, at least. lol

[Courtney]

I'm a fan of one words. Not a demand but they always strike me as clever if a single word can entice and be true to the story.

[Tiger]

I usually get mine form poems, honestly

[Jason]

Interesting, because I don't like one word titles, in books or movies, generally. They seem almost lazy to me.

/shrug

Again, not a deal-breaker, just something I notice. "Twilight." "Divergent." I dunno.

[Tiger]

Well one word titles do a good job of having a certain punch to them.

[Jason]

Yeah...I guess.

I just prefer description to punch. The word "Divergent," for example, has so many meanings that without other information I'm not going to pick it up. "So, what', it's about things moving away from each other? Is it a romance book? Is it apocalyptic? Dystopian? What?" I know that in a bookstore we have genre listings and all, but...I like the title to tell me something. If it's a series, put the series title in there, too; I like seeing that.

[Courtney]

Easier to remember and it avoids trying too hard to impress or give a certain perception. Something always to be said for simplicity