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I'm pretty sure that most of us have a general idea of what our next story is going to be centered on. I'm wondering, do you generally have a title for the story in mind, or does one kind of just pop out as you write? I've had a couple where I had settled on a title for the story. But most of the time it's in the folder as just 'Story'. Then somewhere along the writing of the story something just pops up, and I go, "YES" and a lot of the time it changes as something more profound and fitting hits me, usually at night after a couple of beers.

How about you guys?
 
Sometimes I start with a title, sometimes the story suggests one. Sometimes the former, and the latter overrides it. I usually have a pretty good idea well before the end.
 
I have a working title from early on, and that becomes the name on the word processing file. The actual title is usually something I sweat over, sometimes until just before I post the story to Laurel. Sometimes I change the title on the word processor file. Sometimes I don't.
 
Normally the title is obvious. I'm having real problems with my current WIP though. Nothing seems to have the right pop.
 
Usually the title presents itself at the beginning.

In ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE the premise was that the protagonist’s enemies were all gathered at a Halloween orgy,

HOT AND FUZZY was a homage to HOT FUZZ

THE PROCESS is the story of a gene therapy centre for athletes were things go horribly wrong.

Story idea - Title. End of.
 
It can go either way, but often the title gets stuck in my head pretty early. I haven't really started writing my next story but I'm pretty sure it's going to be called "Tits and Sympathy".
 
Bramblethorn said:
It can go either way, but often the title gets stuck in my head pretty early. I haven't really started writing my next story but I'm pretty sure it's going to be called "Tits and Sympathy".
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Sounds like a rock opera. You know, with Barry Manilow as the star.
 
I bounce back and forth with it.

Sometimes the title comes almost immediately with the story idea.

Sometimes the title IS the story idea.

Other times the title pops up as I'm writing.

It really depends and there's no real rhyme or reason to it.

The Devil And Angel Em had like three different working titles, none of which I liked, until I struck on that about halfway through.

April Fools Daddy, on the other hand, was a simultaneous title and story idea at the same time.

Then there was Night Of The Giving Head, which was a title I came up with for a Halloween theme story, and then wrote the story based around the title.
 
I try to avoid a title which has been used before so I always do a title search. Using an MC’s name in the title gives me a lot of leeway here. I usually write the entire work before I deal with the four most important items: title, tags, descriptor line and the first paragraph (which I rewrite almost every time.)
 
Usually the title comes to me while I'm working on the story. Once in a great while I start with the title, but my experience with that approach hasn't been the best.
 
Usually, mine just pop up randomly. Sometimes that's when I'm planning out what I want to happen and something just comes to me. Other times one of the first things that comes into my head when thinking of a story is the title. Then other times still I really struggle to think of a title and it's not until I'm deep into or have even finished writing that the title comes to me.

I don't usually change titles once I have one, though, unless the story morphs into something I wasn't expecting.
 
I usually settle on a title as I write the story. Interestingly, I'm writing a story based solely on a title suggested my SirHugs in the story ideas forum. "My daughter, the mechanic" will hopefully be done for the summer comp.
 
I usually have a title in mind when I start, but quite often it will change as I work thru the story. For example my next one started off called "Business As Usual," but then as I write it morphed into "Gangsta’s Paradise" with "Just Business As Usual" as the secondary title. The story didn't really change but the way I was thinking about it did.
 
Titles usually are easy for me. I come up with a title very early in the story process, and I usually stick with the original one, although not always. My story-picking process makes it fairly easy, because I typically try to pick a title that is descriptive and titillating, so the story typically will suggest the title right off the bat. I don't spend time trying to come up with something that is allusive and unusual. I want to catch people's attention.
 
I browsed the NaNo forum several years ago and made a list of titles I liked from the 'take one leave one' thread. So far, I used one.
 
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