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A good title can make or break a fanfic. List (at least) five recent fanfics you've written. For each one, explain how you came up with the title and what it means.
Five titles, five explanations, behind the cut:
I decided to do my five most recent fics:
Whatever Happened to Rusty Cotton?
Rusty is one of my OCs that people frequently asked me about. She was one of Pippin's childhood friends, appearing in "Pippin the Protector" and "A Sight to Remember". A lot of people wanted to know how she turned out in life, so I decided to oblige them. As you can see, the title is very straightforward. There's not much mystery there, but it does serve to let those interested to know who it's about.
Between Childhood and Coming of Age
Whengolden1 asked me to write a story about Pippin discovering the opposite sex, I decided to use this phrase from FotR, Book 1, Chapter 1. I thought it felt very appropriate, and I love to use canon quotes for titles.
On Amon Sûl
This Frodo h/c, written forfebobe describes the aftermath of the stabbing on Weathertop from Frodo's POV. As you see, I once again went for the obvious--unusual for me, I picked the title before I finished the story--but it helped me to set the parameters of the story: it would all take place while Strider and the hobbits were still there, and would end when they left.
Good King Elessar
Another obvious choice for a fic placing Aragorn in the story of "Good King Wenceslas". The title kind of inspired the story, because I suddenly realized one day that "Good King Elessar" scanned to the words. Actually, I really liked that I was able to give titles to the chapters in this one--I don't usually do that, but with this story, I was able to pull phrases from the song to use as chapter titles.
Yule at Great Smials
Again, not very subtle. *sigh* I was doing a Yule Exchange Fic forpearltook1 at the GFIC Yahoo group. She wanted a setting of Yule at the Great Smials, with little Pippin, and Gandalf in attendance.
One of the reasons I decided to do this meme is that my titles are usually pretty obvious, and a bit lame, actually, for the most part, or someone else helps me think up a good title. I *do* have a few I'm rather proud of: "A New Reckoning", which of course, I took from the Appendices; "It Takes a Took", for my Pippin/Diamond romance; "Pippin's Pack of Pickled Pipers", which I originally tried to give togrey_wonderer till she gave it back to me; "Neither Have I Wings to Fly", for my vignette at the Grey Havens from Merry's POV--it is from a traditional song, "The Water is Wide", that has always reminded me of the Grey Haven; and "Test Results", my drabble about Galadriel's thoughts after she "tested" the hobbits in Lothlorien.
But for all the fics I've written, the majority of the titles are pretty bland.
telperion1 and rhapsody11A good title can make or break a fanfic. List (at least) five recent fanfics you've written. For each one, explain how you came up with the title and what it means.
Five titles, five explanations, behind the cut:
I decided to do my five most recent fics:
Whatever Happened to Rusty Cotton?
Rusty is one of my OCs that people frequently asked me about. She was one of Pippin's childhood friends, appearing in "Pippin the Protector" and "A Sight to Remember". A lot of people wanted to know how she turned out in life, so I decided to oblige them. As you can see, the title is very straightforward. There's not much mystery there, but it does serve to let those interested to know who it's about.
Between Childhood and Coming of Age
When
golden1 asked me to write a story about Pippin discovering the opposite sex, I decided to use this phrase from FotR, Book 1, Chapter 1. I thought it felt very appropriate, and I love to use canon quotes for titles.On Amon Sûl
This Frodo h/c, written for
febobe describes the aftermath of the stabbing on Weathertop from Frodo's POV. As you see, I once again went for the obvious--unusual for me, I picked the title before I finished the story--but it helped me to set the parameters of the story: it would all take place while Strider and the hobbits were still there, and would end when they left.Good King Elessar
Another obvious choice for a fic placing Aragorn in the story of "Good King Wenceslas". The title kind of inspired the story, because I suddenly realized one day that "Good King Elessar" scanned to the words. Actually, I really liked that I was able to give titles to the chapters in this one--I don't usually do that, but with this story, I was able to pull phrases from the song to use as chapter titles.
Yule at Great Smials
Again, not very subtle. *sigh* I was doing a Yule Exchange Fic for
pearltook1 at the GFIC Yahoo group. She wanted a setting of Yule at the Great Smials, with little Pippin, and Gandalf in attendance.One of the reasons I decided to do this meme is that my titles are usually pretty obvious, and a bit lame, actually, for the most part, or someone else helps me think up a good title. I *do* have a few I'm rather proud of: "A New Reckoning", which of course, I took from the Appendices; "It Takes a Took", for my Pippin/Diamond romance; "Pippin's Pack of Pickled Pipers", which I originally tried to give to
grey_wonderer till she gave it back to me; "Neither Have I Wings to Fly", for my vignette at the Grey Havens from Merry's POV--it is from a traditional song, "The Water is Wide", that has always reminded me of the Grey Haven; and "Test Results", my drabble about Galadriel's thoughts after she "tested" the hobbits in Lothlorien.But for all the fics I've written, the majority of the titles are pretty bland.