Title First?

[Carnevil9]

My favorite "title in search of a story" at the moment is Granny and the Tranny. First runner-up is House of Whacks.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I find the title usually kicks me off and a good title will just give me the story.

Quite often it's song titles. I'll be listening to something and a line from the song or the song's name will give me the story. My problem is cutting down the ideas to one I can really focus on.

 

[ElectricBlue]

My problem is cutting down the ideas to one I can really focus on.

"one" ...lol.

You learning about understatement at night school, Chloe?

 

[ChloeTzang]

"one" ...lol.

You learning about understatement at night school, Chloe?

Okay okay make fun of me. So I understated by a couple of decimal places. No biggie.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Okay okay make fun of me. So I understated by a couple of decimal places. No biggie.

Said the Hubble Telescope engineer to his boss - or was that an imperial / metric mistake?

 

[NotWise]

Said the Hubble Telescope engineer to his boss - or was that an imperial / metric mistake?

Was there a problem with Hubble, too? In 1999 there was a satellite that was supposed to go into orbit around Mars. Instead, it burned up in the Martian atmosphere because someone crossed up feet and meters.

The story I'm working on now has a working title (in my sig) but I doubt now that I'll stick with it. It has gained a short description/subtitle that will probably stay. I leave tags to the end, but aside from that the title is about the last thing I pin down.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Was there a problem with Hubble, too? In 1999 there was a satellite that was supposed to go into orbit around Mars. Instead, it burned up in the Martian atmosphere because someone crossed up feet and meters.

They misaligned the mirror by 1.3mm which is huge. For a telescope mirror. Sequence of errors that's fascinating to read, as is how they corrected it.

 

[ElectricBlue]

They misaligned the mirror by 1.3mm which is huge. For a telescope mirror. Sequence of errors that's fascinating to read, as is how they corrected it.

Yes - a fair number of Shuttle missions to put on what was, in effect, a pair of glasses.

 

[NotWise]

Yes - a fair number of Shuttle missions to put on what was, in effect, a pair of glasses.

That's ringing a bell. At least there was a fix. The Martian orbiter was a loss. Coordinating units seems like a low-level supervisory job, but apparently one that wasn't done.

And titles! Titles make the man. Or is that ties? I don't know. I forget.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Probably 10 to 20 percent of my stories start with the title. Three of my published stories started that way (little red rides the hood, over the sink, and oil can).