Friday, October 19, 2007

National Novel Writing Month: The Title

There are two schools of thought about titling your novel. One school says you just start writing and a title will reveal itself. The other school says that before you write anything you write the title, and then, whenever you can feel the story wandering and your heart flagging, you've got something concrete to hold on to. I read both of those theories in a "how do you write" type interview in some shi-shi magazine like Time or Newsweek. I have come to believe that you can understand modern life by reading Time and Newsweek.

Working Titles, take 1: "Miscreation" "Together We Spiral" "Dis and That" "Implode-Explode" "Devil Up" "The Bachelor from Bulgaria" "Apocalypse Tuesday" "Fire and Dice" "Johnny Pope and the Quest for Reality" "The Girl"

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