Quote Originally Posted by Morrighan
I don't think I've ever satisfactorily titled anything in my life. Titles and names of characters are the two things that set me up for writer's block every single time. As for naming chapters--no way. I've been struggling with a novel for ten years now, and while the novel itself has reincarnated any number of times, I still have no satisfactory title. After ten years. I figure I'll just let my editor read it, and if he comes up with something that is not utterly abhorrent, I'll go with that.

Morrighan
Yeah. By the time the thing's finsihed and it's time to title it, I'm usually so drained that I slap up almost anything that comes to mind.

I've had a few stories where I forced myself to come up with something deliberately over-the-top, and actually that's worked out pretty well. It can be kind of embarrassing to title something "Descent into Heaven" or "Holiday for Leather Lovers", but it seems to draw readers.

---dr.M.