PUPPIES!!1 *____*
Jul. 10th, 2006 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reenkaMan, I was browsing R/S writers' journals (which... btw, don't contain a lot of R/S these days :O!!) and I found this, which is a screencap with the titles of a bunch of R/S fics... brilliant titles, gorgeous titles, titles that I'd nearly chew my finger off to come up with myself, and....
Okay, this just started me thinking about title-naming, obviously. I've never been one of those people who thought it was -hard-, 'cause I just come up with some quote from the story or try to sum it up in a cute/punny way or something, but I never do the longish 4-7 word titles that impress me so much *___* I was looking, and my titles never go over 4 words, and are usually 2 or 3 at most! Which may make them snappy, but also boring :( Ahhh, titling is an art all in itself.
I mean, seriously. 'Five Ways to Open Your Arms' or 'Go Forth to Meet the Stranger' or 'Fear in a Handful of Dust' or 'Map of Your Head' or just 'Quixotic'... ahh :(( *envy!*
...This is really the sort of thing that makes me want to write. There should be a challenge/prompt-fest just to steal people's titles and remix them :P I COVETTTTT, PRECIOUSSSSS :((
However, all this R/S-hunting also makes me meepy 'cause the peeps are not as prolific as H/D by a long-shot, and most of it's small angsty little vignettes or so-fluffy-it's-somewhat-bland MWPP stuff :( :( WHO SHOULD I BE READING? :( I mean, I don't mind angst, I just wish it were longer, IC MWPP-era angst with some fluff in it :( And also smut. (And I'd also love cute fluffy smutty stuff that isn't too fluffy... and by 'too fluffy' I mean: 'raises any serious issues whatsoever'.) IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK? :(
EDIT - Man. If I ever forget how hot Draco is, I just have to look at this. o_0 SERIOUSLY. *____* Though![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kasche's latest R/S makes me even happier. ♥. *____* Alsoooo... calyxess' H/D fanart makes me happy :> Cute & sorta old-school, yeay :D
PS: GO ON AND TELL IF ME IF THIS ISN'T A MUCH BETTER PANSY THAN THE MOVIE!CANON VERSION!!1 :O! (...even if that's not actually Pansy fanart... heh)
Okay, this just started me thinking about title-naming, obviously. I've never been one of those people who thought it was -hard-, 'cause I just come up with some quote from the story or try to sum it up in a cute/punny way or something, but I never do the longish 4-7 word titles that impress me so much *___* I was looking, and my titles never go over 4 words, and are usually 2 or 3 at most! Which may make them snappy, but also boring :( Ahhh, titling is an art all in itself.
I mean, seriously. 'Five Ways to Open Your Arms' or 'Go Forth to Meet the Stranger' or 'Fear in a Handful of Dust' or 'Map of Your Head' or just 'Quixotic'... ahh :(( *envy!*
...This is really the sort of thing that makes me want to write. There should be a challenge/prompt-fest just to steal people's titles and remix them :P I COVETTTTT, PRECIOUSSSSS :((
However, all this R/S-hunting also makes me meepy 'cause the peeps are not as prolific as H/D by a long-shot, and most of it's small angsty little vignettes or so-fluffy-it's-somewhat-bland MWPP stuff :( :( WHO SHOULD I BE READING? :( I mean, I don't mind angst, I just wish it were longer, IC MWPP-era angst with some fluff in it :( And also smut. (And I'd also love cute fluffy smutty stuff that isn't too fluffy... and by 'too fluffy' I mean: 'raises any serious issues whatsoever'.) IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK? :(
EDIT - Man. If I ever forget how hot Draco is, I just have to look at this. o_0 SERIOUSLY. *____* Though
kasche's latest R/S makes me even happier. ♥. *____* Alsoooo... calyxess' H/D fanart makes me happy :> Cute & sorta old-school, yeay :DPS: GO ON AND TELL IF ME IF THIS ISN'T A MUCH BETTER PANSY THAN THE MOVIE!CANON VERSION!!1 :O! (...even if that's not actually Pansy fanart... heh)
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Re: song titles
Date: 2006-07-10 10:03 pm (UTC)I once planned to structure my SGA-in-London AU around all song-titles by Ed Ball/The Times, which is a bit like doing all underground stations in New York.
And you made me hunt for http://www.angelfire.com/ill/hathor/yaoicorner_background_background.jpg this picture - sorry for only having the manip but your Draco link and icon reminded me of this like no other image ever recalled another.
Re: song titles
Date: 2006-07-10 10:10 pm (UTC)I feel like having the structure of say, the song-titles of a creative cd to structure my fic around may help with writer's block, maybe. Maybe a part of me just feels lame having long/emo titles? heh.
titles
Date: 2006-07-10 10:16 pm (UTC)I'd highly recommend it, it can't hurt (then again, my writer's block is different). Long titles often are lame, but more often (in SGA at least) they are used for humorous fics. Here it is the norm to use one obscure words, or two. They are so obscure that nobody uses them and nobody remembers them or gets them right. But the four-word titles are also quite hip, and I tend not to like them - those are indeed for emo-grieving-fics.
Having said that, my WIP is called We're Off To See the Man Behind the Curtain Over the Rainbow, which already tells you all you need to know about my problems with the fic itself.