How Do You Come Up With A Good Title For A Book, Script, Poem Etc?

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How Do You Come Up With A Good Title For A Book, Script, Poem Etc?

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Answer 1

Writing titles is about taking all of the elements of the work and trying to distil it down into something that captures the essence of the work in something short and catchy. The title should never simply reflect your desire to capture an audience or hold a reader's attention long enough to buy the book/work.

However, there does have to be the balance, delicate as it may be, between crafty title (one that is crafted) and a marketing worthy title. Some times people name their work crazy stuff, but it does need to peak interest, so crazy can be good too.

I try to mindmap, all of the words that I associate with the project, spinning these off into spiders legs on the mindmap, allowing my creativity and order to work together. This way you tend to have a lot of words on the mapped page, that you can play around in combination with each other.

Answer 2

Here is an example. My book was about 3 friends that take a school trip to the Colorado mountains, they get in a fight, (argument) and wont talk to each other. But they get lost and need to work things out so they can wait for a rescue team to find them. Now when I tried to name this book I thought of the place that it is, and something that happens. So I came up with Numb Courage. They are cold in the mountains, they need courage to get out. But also, they can't find their courage cause there in a fight, so its lost, like how you loose your feeling when your fingers go numb. So there courage was numb. Numb Courage. So my suggestion is to read over your book, get two or three words that describe your book, and maybe find a more unique version of those words to make it a better title that no one else could ever think of.

Answer 3

Think of what the books about,

Answer 4

Something about past

Answer 5

Read the thing and see what come to mind.
My friend had this problem and it was about a life if a person.
She called it " The idiotic life of the idiots."
GOOD LUCK/

Answer 6

Think about what you want to display to everyone, I always wanted to publish my own book about japan and scroll my finger down my name 'Naoko Mizuhara' We need a catchy title to the book so lets see, The tokyo common style poem book.
In the autumn fields

Naoko:From the early section of the love poems of the Kokinoshu.

In the autumn fields
mingled with the pampas grass
flowers are blooming
should my love too, spring forth
or shall we never meet?
The introduction before the first poem could start with
Poetry has been a major Japanese influence on the literature of many countries. In the early waka and later haiku forms, poets strove for the utmost conciseness and vividness; always linking emotions or ideas to natural objects. The gem-like brilliance of these extremely restricted forms has attracted many modern Western poets. The following poems are from two classic collections of Japanese verse, the Manyoshu and the Kokinoshu.
Now you have a think! What would be the conclusion? Comment me when you have some ideas.