Thoughts on Possible Titles

pink_silk_glove · Dec 3, 2018

So, just imagine yourself browsing for smutty paperbacks. You see a cover, a montage of Hollywood images, perhaps some glamorous, perhaps some titillating. Which of these potential titles most makes you want to read the book? Don't think too hard about it. It's the instant reaction that I'm looking for.

While I wholeheartedly welcome any feedback on your thought processes below, please vote quickly before reading any of anyone else's comments as I don't want the poll to be tainted. Again, it's that instant first thought that I'm trying to gauge.

Thank you so much for participating.

Hypoxia · Dec 3, 2018

I've been roughly planning a made-up story of an actual player in 1920's-30's Hollywood, a set designer who witnesses and enjoys the era's depravity. A title is still elusive. Good luck with yours.

PS: I went for #1.

NotWise · Dec 3, 2018

Hypoxia said:
I've been roughly planning a made-up story of an actual player in 1920's-30's Hollywood, a set designer who witnesses and enjoys the era's depravity. A title is still elusive. Good luck with yours.

If you want to write a period piece, then Hollywood in the '20s is fertile ground for erotica.

SimonDoom · Dec 3, 2018

Number 1. Neither of the other two conveys anything. I can't picture anything in my mind from reading those titles. The first puts a picture in my head, and I can decide from that picture whether I want to look more closely at the book.

Hypoxia · Dec 3, 2018

NotWise said:
If you want to write a period piece, then Hollywood in the '20s is fertile ground for erotica.

Precisely. Easy money, fast cars, pervo sex, legal drugs, wild music -- and a dreamy cast of seamy characters.

Paul_Chance · Dec 3, 2018

pink_silk_glove said:
So, just imagine yourself browsing for smutty paperbacks. You see a cover, a montage of Hollywood images, perhaps some glamorous, perhaps some titillating. Which of these potential titles most makes you want to read the book? Don't think too hard about it. It's the instant reaction that I'm looking for.

While I wholeheartedly welcome any feedback on your thought processes below, please vote quickly before reading any of anyone else's comments as I don't want the poll to be tainted. Again, it's that instant first thought that I'm trying to gauge.

Thank you so much for participating.

None of the above is my first reaction.

Hypoxia · Dec 3, 2018

Paul_Chance said:
None of the above is my first reaction.

And Hollywood Babylon is already taken.

pink_silk_glove · Dec 4, 2018

Hypoxia said:
I've been roughly planning a made-up story of an actual player in 1920's-30's Hollywood, a set designer who witnesses and enjoys the era's depravity. A title is still elusive. Good luck with yours.

PS: I went for #1.

Lots of room for imagination there, depraved or otherwise. You could really work the style of the era, the clothes, that cars, the dancing.

SimonDoom said:
Number 1. Neither of the other two conveys anything. I can't picture anything in my mind from reading those titles. The first puts a picture in my head, and I can decide from that picture whether I want to look more closely at the book.

Thank you. This is precisely the type of blunt feedback that I'm looking for.

Paul_Chance said:
None of the above is my first reaction.

I actually wanted to add 'none of the above' as an option but had already posted the poll and could not find how to edit it. I did have the notion that perhaps none of them would be all that grabby, so thank you for mentioning this.

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I'll keep checking in.

yukonnights · Dec 4, 2018

I was drawn to #3. It leaves me wondering what it might imply..and the 'Bitch' term left me thinking it's just more mindless unbelievable porn. Looks like the poll isn't helping to clarify much

Although at this point #1 seems to be winning, with #3 coming around the rail looking strong

FEELINGLUCKYPUNK · Dec 4, 2018

Reading your OP I thought of Howard Hughes and his Hollywood years. So the title HOLLYWOOD IS WHERE YOU GO TO GET FUCKED, AND HOW.

pink_silk_glove · Dec 7, 2018

yukonnights said:
I was drawn to #3. It leaves me wondering what it might imply..and the 'Bitch' term left me thinking it's just more mindless unbelievable porn. Looks like the poll isn't helping to clarify much Although at this point #1 seems to be winning, with #3 coming around the rail looking strong

Yes, I was hoping to have a more cerebral title, but I don;t want to end up with something that just doesn;t connect with anyone.

FEELINGLUCKYPUNK said:
Reading your OP I thought of Howard Hughes and his Hollywood years. So the title HOLLYWOOD IS WHERE YOU GO TO GET FUCKED, AND HOW.

Haha.

Thanks again everyone for the feedback. I really appreciate this.

Hypoxia · Dec 7, 2018

Some titles:

* Hollyweird Passions
* Fucking For Films
* Sex And The Makeup Girl
* Silent Screens, Sexy Screams
* Casting Couch Cunnies
* Doing Time At Hollyweird & Vine
* Before She Was A Virgin
* Sinema For Nymphos
* The Starlet Pulls A Train
* King Kong's Kunt-Splitter

I need more coffee.

Thoughts on Possible Titles

Which of these potential titles most entices you to read the book?

'The Bitch of the Silver Screen' or 'Big Screen Bitch' or similar variant

'Cursing Pictures'

'Hit My Mark'

pink_silk_glove

Literotica Guru

Hypoxia

doesn't watch television

NotWise

Desert Rat

SimonDoom

Kink Lord

Hypoxia

doesn't watch television

Paul_Chance

The Watcher

Hypoxia

doesn't watch television

pink_silk_glove

Literotica Guru

yukonnights

Literotica Guru

FEELINGLUCKYPUNK

Loves Spam

pink_silk_glove

Literotica Guru

Hypoxia

doesn't watch television

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