30 Day Fanfic Meme - Day 17
Oct. 5th, 2015 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dimity_blue17 – 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?
Ha, chaptered fic! *laughs mockingly* If I can barely come up with one title, do you think I'd title every chapter?
As for actual titles, it depends. At least once I've had the title first**, usually I find the title while I'm writing the fic, and sometimes I end up with a fic and no title, which is unbelievably frustrating. At that point, I look through the fic to see if anything I wrote is suitable as a title. If not, I consider what would fit. Sometimes I google something about the fic to see if any phrase pops up.
I much prefer it when I have the title to start or find the title mid-fic.
**Alas, Poor Fargo. I was coming home from the corner shop and 'Alas, poor Iago' popped into my head. Next step: 'Alas, Poor Fargo.' Next step: 'Jim hates the Fargo hat.' Step after that: 'Jim hates the Fargo hat and tries to get rid of it.' I pretty much had the fic by the time I got home.
Ha, chaptered fic! *laughs mockingly* If I can barely come up with one title, do you think I'd title every chapter?
As for actual titles, it depends. At least once I've had the title first**, usually I find the title while I'm writing the fic, and sometimes I end up with a fic and no title, which is unbelievably frustrating. At that point, I look through the fic to see if anything I wrote is suitable as a title. If not, I consider what would fit. Sometimes I google something about the fic to see if any phrase pops up.
I much prefer it when I have the title to start or find the title mid-fic.
**Alas, Poor Fargo. I was coming home from the corner shop and 'Alas, poor Iago' popped into my head. Next step: 'Alas, Poor Fargo.' Next step: 'Jim hates the Fargo hat.' Step after that: 'Jim hates the Fargo hat and tries to get rid of it.' I pretty much had the fic by the time I got home.