Story Title Stories
Feb. 16th, 2012 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretStory titles are weird. I'm in the middle of editing a story where I had the title before I had the story idea. It's the second time that's happened: the first was "Only a Sun Can Lead a Copernican Revolution", where I sat on that title/bad joke for a while before figuring out that it was a Manhattan Project/Back to the Future crossover. Contrast that to "Only the Third Story in this Forsaken Fandom Whose Title Doesn't Begin with If", which was finished for several weeks before I came up with a title I liked enough to post the story.
"The Music Speaks for Itself" was the fifth title of that story, and it was the one I slapped on the day I uploaded. Working titles included the leeringly obscene "Piano Concerto for the Left Hand." If I'd had another day to upload, it might have changed again, which is interesting because someone who commented on the story explicitly mentioned how the title had positively influenced their reading of the story. On the other hand, as soon as I wrote the final sentence of "Rhapsody in Red" I knew that had to be the title.
Anybody else have story title stories?
"The Music Speaks for Itself" was the fifth title of that story, and it was the one I slapped on the day I uploaded. Working titles included the leeringly obscene "Piano Concerto for the Left Hand." If I'd had another day to upload, it might have changed again, which is interesting because someone who commented on the story explicitly mentioned how the title had positively influenced their reading of the story. On the other hand, as soon as I wrote the final sentence of "Rhapsody in Red" I knew that had to be the title.
Anybody else have story title stories?