Titles!

[Cyclone Jack]

I carry titles around. I've been carrying some around since childhood. It took me almost 20 years to find a piece of writing to call micropiece. I'm still looking for something to call The Laws Of Futility and Coyote Laid Low. My story Tessellation was originally called the rather clumsy Two Conversations, Up On Pond Creek. I had to change it because the story ended before the second conversation happened.

I named a friends novel. I also name cats and boats. My favorite of the latter was owned by a pal who equally loves fishing and logical debate. I named his boat (in a goofy story we were writing on a forum) Fishin' Ain't Fallacious and he liked it so well that he adoted it for his real boat.

[LizW65]

I had so many unused titles hanging around that I finally created a filmography for a fictitious B-movie actor named Malcolm MacLeod.  Some of my favorites include:
Cannibal Carnival
Ghoul Scouts
Don't Go Alone To Whitechapel
Blood Feast of the Zombie King (this one holds the Guinness record for bloodiest horror film ever)
Strip Club Party Massacre
Vampyromaniac!
The Texas Cheerleader Massacre
The Sensuous Strippers vs. The Flesh-Eating Monster
Vestal Vixens of Vesuvius (a sword-and-sandal spoof from 1971 with walloping dollops of psychedelia)

Not sure why I've posted this, I just felt like sharing with a group that would appreciate a bit of random weirdness....

[Mickey Finn]

Would "Love Zombies From Tokyo" do better?

If it wasn't about faking a Godzilla attack on a housing community that was being built so that project's insurance would scrap it and they'd be able to build a new themepark to compete with Disneyland...yes, that'd be perfect

[pathele]

If it wasn't about faking a Godzilla attack on a housing community that was being built so that project's insurance would scrap it and they'd be able to build a new themepark to compete with Disneyland...yes, that'd be perfect

Told from who's POV?  is the MC trying to help or stop the fake 'zilla? 
Ok, these aren't good, but here they are:
Scam-zilla
How to be a Zilla'noaire



-paul

[Mickey Finn]

It's a Chinatown rift, so it's a PI...although a rich one who does it because he's bored and wants to help. His brother's a mad scientist. His butler's a failed experiment...an ape body with a monitor for a head WHO TALKS LIKE THIS ON THE SCREEN. Giant mutant spiders roam the desert, and Area 51 is real. It's the atomic age of the 50's gone wild.

They're really characters who deserve a better story

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

OMG neurovore, is your father single???

My parents are still together; this is not usually call for an "alas".

I can't believe that someone else remembers "And to my Nephew....."  It's still on our local library's bookshelves because I went looking for it again.  If he's single fix me up!  We ATMNAILTIWIWOFAHIAPG fans have got to stick together!

Personally I thought The Great Dinosaur Robbery was better, and am peeved that it got made into a Disney family film rather than a more accurate version - preferably by Blake Edwards back when he was still any good.

Nothing like a Russian warship running between you complete with Russian's and AKA's.  Okay were there AKA's in the 60's? anyway they had guns as I recall.

The AK47, curiously enough, dates from 1947.

Sad news, a collumnest (my G** A***** spelling) for the NY Post told me that she knew an editor that threw away any query or manuscript that didn't have a great title and read no further. 

There have been cases of subeditors at major publishing houses doing this; from all that I hear, they get fired rapidly.

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

The other titles I love pretty much uncritically are Theodore Sturgeon's "If All Men Were Brothers Would You Let One Marry Your Sister ?" and Kinky Friedman's The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover.

[meg_evonne]

I was joking!  I'm thrilled your parents are alive and happily married!   

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

I was joking! 

Thought so; that would appear to have been a failure-of-deadpan in my reply.

[ihatepeas]

I tend to have a really hard time with titles, but I have yet to find a muse so I limp along on my own. I've been having a little better luck recently, with titles like these:

Don't Roll Your Eyes When You're Undercover (YA murder mystery)
Up, Down, and Strange (YA sci-fi)
Champagne Death Wishes (murder mystery)

I love titles. A title is what catches my eye when I'm browsing for books. Some of my favorites: Eating the Cheshire Cat, The Pleasure of My Company, The Disapparation of James, The Cheese Monkeys.

--Sarah

[Dread Pirate Sayessa]

Upon review, I have three in progress stories, none of which has a decent title yet.  The files are called Inadrin, Horse Lord and Magic Woman.  Those titles suck.     I haven't actually thought about titles for them yet, except for the Inadrin story waaaaay back when I first had the idea for it, but none of those names stuck, obviously, because I named the file after the protagonist!

OK I take that back, Inadrin the story is MIA (I have the notes for it), the third story is Hellhound.

Darn it, now I have to find out where the story for Inadrin went!  I'm worried it's on my old, dead laptop....   

[blgarver]

Upon review, I have three in progress stories, none of which has a decent title yet.  The files are called Inadrin, Horse Lord and Magic Woman.  Those titles suck.     I haven't actually thought about titles for them yet, except for the Inadrin story waaaaay back when I first had the idea for it, but none of those names stuck, obviously, because I named the file after the protagonist!

OK I take that back, Inadrin the story is MIA (I have the notes for it), the third story is Hellhound.

Darn it, now I have to find out where the story for Inadrin went!  I'm worried it's on my old, dead laptop....   

Oh man, I would read a book called "Horse Lord and Magic Woman".  lol

[Dread Pirate Sayessa]

Oh man, I would read a book called "Horse Lord and Magic Woman".  lol

Whoops!  Those are two seperate stories!  LOL!  Well, I suppose I could call the Horse Lord story by that combined title, but it might get put into the fantasy porn section by mistake.

Hmm.  Upon thinking of one scene in that story...  Maybe not a mistake.   

[Dom]

"Horse Lord and Magic Woman" sounds native american, lol.

[Stuart1512]

I'm currently plotting together a Zombie series, i've just recently came up with the titles for the first two books.

The Purge: nobody knows if it was an act of God or a terroist act, the dead begin to walk around and attack the living, trapped in a small town. A man and his son, along with a group of people have to fight their way out and tell the world what is happening before it's to late and the virus spreads.

The Purge 2: Echoes From a Once Living World. The virus has spread all over America and maybe the world, the group from the first novel attempt to find shelter and other surivors and try to rebuild humanity and try to keep their sanity in the process.