The title is most likely the very first thing your reader will notice about your story. Therefore, it's important for the title to be interesting, but not overly-complicated. Here are a few tips to consider when choosing a title for your story.
You don't have to come up with a title right away. Even if you do, keep in mind that you might want to change it eventually. With the stories I've written, I often don't come up with a title until I've already written a good chunk of the story - sometimes not even until I've finished a draft or two!
Keep it simple! If your title is too complicated or difficult to remember, it might be a little harder to catch a reader's attention with the title alone. There are exceptions, however, and it depends on the way you're planning to present your story. But as a general rule, keeping it short and simple, like The Lightning Thief or Wonderstruck is ideal.
This website has a lot of great information about choosing a title.
I have a hard time with giving animals names but titles seems to come to me pretty easily. However, I wish I would have came up with something more catching for my blog title.
ReplyDeleteComing up with titles is literally the HARDEST part for me. I'm not sure why I always seem to have a problem, but I can't easily think of a unique title for anything.
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