Not Sure About Title

[Salacious_Scribe]

I have a story I'm almost finished with and can't decide between 3 titles.

 

[SimonDoom]

What's the story about, roughly?

What category?

 

[AlinaX]

The Babe Fish

 

[lovecraft68]

If this story is about what I think its about...how about a ride for a ride.

 

[Blind_Justice]

Of the four choices given, I think #2 is the best and most intriguing.

(#1 might be a play on words I'm not familiar with while #3 and #4 are very, very tired double entendres. That particular horse is just a pile of crumbling bones by now) )

 

[RejectReality]

Two is way more intriguing, and likely not a title anyone else has used on Lit. That's the way I would go.

 

[Salacious_Scribe]

The story is about a woman who leaves her loser boyfriend and heads home to momma with little cash. A truck driver picks her up in Texas and they travel to PA.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Two. It's a title, the others are tags. But then, I don't use titles to pull in eyes. I use titles because they mean something for the story itself, not the marketing of it.

 

[RejectReality]

Two. It's a title, the others are tags. But then, I don't use titles to pull in eyes. I use titles because they mean something for the story itself, not the marketing of it.

Both are the main components of my title decisions. Often made easier because my titles are the seed of the story, rather than the other way around. I file away titles that I like, and wait for a story to sprout from them.

Much harder when I already have a story that I have to title after the fact. Those typically end up tipping toward the "meaningful to the story" end.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Yeah, two. The others are cliches.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I subtitled a chapter Nobody Rides For Free, referencing the old bumpersticker "Gas, Grass or Ass, Nobody Rides For Free."

That might work for you if there is any aspect of non-con in the story.

You can have it if it works for you.

 

[Salacious_Scribe]

I actually had my MC say that he would never tell anyone gas grass or ass... He's a good ole boy kinda styled after the Duke Boys from the TV show, not the shitty movie.