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30 Days of Fandom Meme: Day 17
Aug. 27th, 2015 10:55 pm17 – Titles – Are they the bane of your existence, or the easiest part of the fic? Also, if you do chaptered fic, do you give each chapter a title, or not?
Bane of my existence, oh my God. Probably the nicest thing I ever did for myself was giving most of the fics in Reciprocity one-word titles, because that simplifies the whole coming up with titles thing immensely. The Reciprocity fics with longer titles - Give Me Your Hand, Lay Your Armor Down - are the fics where I had unexpected title inspiration, and this is pretty much representative of how often I have inspiration for titles generally. When I'm writing for prompts, like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
hc_bingo, I often end up using the prompt itself as the title. Bruises! That pretty much sums up the fic, right?
Actually, looking over my fics, I have an awful lot of fics with one or two word titles that are basically meant to sum up the theme: Covetous, Pieta, Fidelity, Caritas, Cages. There are more. This is just a sampling.
Despite this difficulty with titles, I think all my chaptered fic has chapter titles. Yes, I've just checked: all of it. Every single one. Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment.
Bane of my existence, oh my God. Probably the nicest thing I ever did for myself was giving most of the fics in Reciprocity one-word titles, because that simplifies the whole coming up with titles thing immensely. The Reciprocity fics with longer titles - Give Me Your Hand, Lay Your Armor Down - are the fics where I had unexpected title inspiration, and this is pretty much representative of how often I have inspiration for titles generally. When I'm writing for prompts, like
hc_bingo, I often end up using the prompt itself as the title. Bruises! That pretty much sums up the fic, right?Actually, looking over my fics, I have an awful lot of fics with one or two word titles that are basically meant to sum up the theme: Covetous, Pieta, Fidelity, Caritas, Cages. There are more. This is just a sampling.
Despite this difficulty with titles, I think all my chaptered fic has chapter titles. Yes, I've just checked: all of it. Every single one. Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment.
