Snowflake Challenge Day 1: Introduction

Here I am, okapi.



I like mysteries, jigsaw puzzles, and poetry. I fic. I read. I do the occasional craft. More about me on my profile.

Ficcing Meme: Answers: Titles

I asked for requests for a ficcing meme last month.

All answers are for 2019.

ilthit asked for:

7. Where do your titles come from and what type of title do you use most often? (a quote from the work itself? quotes from classic literature or poetry? a quote from a song? a joke? one word? article-adjective-noun?)

I did a quick review and my best titles usually come from three sources: 1. the original text; 2. poetry; and 3. a one or two words that can have double meaning/interpretation/implication.

So, for example, ancientreader asked [because I don’t use clever working titles. My files are very boringly named]:

5. Favorite title: (the title that just perfectly fits your project)

So in category 1 I have some faves: More of Gravy than of Grave ("A Christmas Carol") and The Lavender-Smelling Country-Inn Bedroom of Fiction (The Red House, A. A. Milne) and enamored of the Night for her own sake (Dupin, Poe).

And in category 2, there’s Gang Aft Agley (which is from Robert Burns “To a mouse” and it’s a Great Mouse Detective fic).

And in category 3, and my favourite fic title of all of 2019, is Brine. I love the sound of the word and its meaning, and the fic is a PWP with BBC Sherlock’s Moriarty/Moran at a seaside holiday cottage. And so you have the double meaning of seamen/semen. It really was the absolute perfect title for that fic.

6. Least favorite title: (the title you stuck on the project at the last minute, in desperation, because you couldn't think of anything else)
Tentacles! (my 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea tentacle Aronnax/Nemo PWP). I mean, it’s Jules fucking Verne and that was the best I could do? For shame!