Unique Titles in your Corpus

[yowser]

I got to thinking about titles the other day (of course one of the primary attention grabbers for a story) and wondered how many of my tales had unique titles.

Of the almost hundred, only eight are not unique, so less than ten percent (series titles complicate the calculations.) A few were used by others before me, but only one had a title that had been used a great deal (not surprising, given that it is a common phrase - 'Too Good to be True').

(To tell whether your title has been used before on Lit, take a look at your story's url. If it has a number at the end, someone has already been there, eg. https://literotica.com/s/something-1, where 'something' is the story title. Alternatively you can do a 'story title' search.)

If 'uniqueness' was the only goal, it wouldn't be hard to achieve (an unusual name or location would do), but on the other hand, it's probably a good idea not to use a title employed dozens of times previously. Given the nature of title-selection, there are apt to be competing choice elements.

How does your catalog manage with unique titles? (Go ahead, name your best one.)

 

[SimonDoom]

For my corpus, it's a toss-up between "Penis Fish" and "Mom, You're A Hucow!"

 

[NotWise]

Two of my titles are not unique. The most common appears to be Watch Me! (mine has a "21" in the url). The other is My Sister's Wedding (with a "7" in the url). Meaningless Sex has a "1" in it's url, but search shows no other story with that title.

There was a time when I searched for tentative titles and only used them if they were unique.

 

[StillStunned]

At one end of the spectrum I have things like "Rulk the Rat and the Demon Dagger" and "The Countesses of Tannensdal".

At the other end, "Into The Night" wasn't even a unique title on its day of publication.

 

[Britva415]

My corpus has zero non-unique titles, other than the 5-part series which only duplicates itself (doesn't overlap other people's previous stories).

My most unique ones are probably Unexpected Fluffer and Milking-Table Twist: For Her.

Because titles like My Partner Would Kill Me, Cold Night, Hot Stranger and First Time Sex Worker are kind of predictable and similar to other titles which abound around here.

Genie's Wish is kind of oddly-specific but probably not too far off at all from other premises which have been published here.

And Field Station Pair-Up only is titled uniquely because of a fairly unique setting - the story itself is straightforward girl-meets-boy.

 

[AG31]

My unique titles

After the Idyll
Thanks to the Literotica Forums
The Recurrence
Twelve Maxbridge Street


Question: One of my stories has a -1 after it but if I search for that title and look at the list (The Recurrence gives 24 hits, easily looked at), I see only my story.

 

[Erozetta]

I'm genuinely surprised that "Lyin' Eyes" and "Wicked Allure" don't have numbers after them.

But I'm partial to "Cookies, Commands, and Subroutines", "Collars and Cravings", "Strokes of Desire, Whispers of Harm", and "Purrfectly Playful" as my favorite unique titles from my list. (And I generally hate my own titles, so yeah, lol.)


The least unique title I have is I Love You

 

[iwatchus]

More than half of mine are unique, some of which surprise me. Of the 21 stories in my original series, which does not have a XXX ch 1 naming, 14 are unique. The Final Bet is probably my biggest surprise for not being used. Movie Night (at 102) is the most common

 

[crookedletter]

My two stories posted here are "Days of Summer" and "All Inclusive." Neither title is unique, and I knew they wouldn't be when I chose them, but both are too appropriate to the stories they tell for me to consider using anything else.