This months question is: What’s harder for you to come up with, book titles or character names?
Book titles, hands down, that is for sure the hardest for me. At the moment what I do is just call them by song names because it’s a lot easier than trying to think something up. Although when I eventually get ready to release them into the world it’s probably going to be ten times harder because the names I’ve given them will have stuck, at least in my mind.
I don’t know though they are still unfinished so maybe when they are closer to completion a title will be easier to imagine. Maybe I’ll hold onto that hope and trick myself into believing it eventually.
Character names I find fairly easy, I can sometimes change a name as I go if it suddenly doesn’t feel right but mostly by the time I’m picking names I have a really good idea of my characters so usually I have a good fit. Although I’ve been writing a fantasy novel recently and making up names that don’t sound like they are from this word but that aren’t going to be difficult to pronounce isn’t as easy.
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I agree, book titles are more difficult for me too. I also have a name and a picture in my mind as I begin a story and they just seem to fit as I write 🙂 Happy IWSG day 🙂
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Thanks 🙂
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Good discussion of this, Kate. We of course have to have character names and book titles to get the writing going but for me, as I get to know the book and the characters, I find the names. Early in the writing, I am constantly Ctr+F to find and replace a character’s name! At a certain point, they feel right.
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I haven’t got to the point of having to use that just yet, but I’m very sure it’ll happen, writer’s prerogative to change our minds 🙂
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Using song titles as working titles is a great idea. Often I have a song going through my head as I write a particular piece.
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Yeah I like to have songs in the background as I write so it seemed fitting 🙂
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Song titles is a great idea. Once you reach the end and have edited some, you’ll have a better grasp on the story and what title would fit it best.
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That’s what I’m hoping, if not I’m sure inspiration will strike when I least expect it
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Song titles as stand-ins is a great idea. If only I was more into music I’d steal this!
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There is a character name thing in Scrivener, but I never like any of the names it suggests!
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I prefer to name them myself or if I get stuck I look at baby name websites, loads of inspiration there ☺️
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