By far the preferred method, I agree! But I've got two stories that don't want to wait because they can't go out on submission until they have names. And it's really beginning to bother me that the novel currently in progress still doesn't have a title, even though it's ~2/3 done and has been in the works for, um, a long time. (I came up with its predecessor's, Highway of Mirrors, somewhere around chapter 3.) Frustratingly, the next several novels in the queue all have titles; one of them even has a spare!
It has ::drum roll:: six suits, five normal and one special.
Nice!
My backbrain has refused, absolutely and positively refused, to come up a set of three titles for this thing. When I ask it for ideas, it goes off into a corner and sulks.
YMMV, but when my brain does that, it's usually trying to stop me from doing something that would be a bad idea. It doesn't always *tell* me what the problem is, not until well after the fact, but it usually has a reason.
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Date: 2014-Jan-14, Tuesday 11:29 pm (UTC)By far the preferred method, I agree! But I've got two stories that don't want to wait because they can't go out on submission until they have names. And it's really beginning to bother me that the novel currently in progress still doesn't have a title, even though it's ~2/3 done and has been in the works for, um, a long time. (I came up with its predecessor's, Highway of Mirrors, somewhere around chapter 3.) Frustratingly, the next several novels in the queue all have titles; one of them even has a spare!
It has ::drum roll:: six suits, five normal and one special.
Nice!
My backbrain has refused, absolutely and positively refused, to come up a set of three titles for this thing. When I ask it for ideas, it goes off into a corner and sulks.
YMMV, but when my brain does that, it's usually trying to stop me from doing something that would be a bad idea. It doesn't always *tell* me what the problem is, not until well after the fact, but it usually has a reason.