fahye: ([n&s] learning the ways)
Fahye ([personal profile] fahye) wrote2009-02-17 03:05 pm
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I want to do a creative/meta meme but there is nothing going around, and it's not like I have that much fic to be asked about*. But ask me writing questions anyway?

*I had to remove that part, it is a dirty dirty lie where I am concerned.

'Writing questions' can mean pretty much anything you want it to mean, my sweets. I have a lot of work to do tonight and I'm going to need something to do in my breaks.
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[identity profile] ariastar.livejournal.com 2009-02-17 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
HOW DO YOU TITLE THINGS. That is my question. Because I am horrible at titling things ever and sit in agonies over it, and I would be equally pleased with [a] a reasonable answer or [b] hair-tearing solidarity.

I am sure I have many other writing questions for you, but my brain is melting out my ears from the sheer volume of Lewis reading I had today, so I will have to ask them later.
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[identity profile] fahye.livejournal.com 2009-02-17 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Hahahaha. There is no one answer to this. Sometimes I know the titles to things almost immediately, sometimes I have titles SITTING AROUND waiting for fics ('The Holes in the Ground' was one of these -- I found the poem and knew I wanted to build a fic around it, but I had to wait for the right idea to come along), sometimes they appear during the writing process ('Twelve Pater Nosters'), and sometimes I find myself on lyrics/poetry websites at 2am frantically skimming for something vaguely pretty.

My titles are usually obscure single words, or snippets from a quote or a poem or a song. Or a scientific concept. But I try to avoid that last because it is way too much fun :D

Hair-pulling happens, believe me. It took me FOREVER to find a title for the current Merlin AU, but I eventually found it by reading websites of quotes pertaining to travel. Themed quote sites are often really handy if you don't want to go totally obscure.
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[identity profile] ariastar.livejournal.com 2009-02-17 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
YES. Like, I have a Martha/Rose fic that I have not yet bothered writing but that I love purely on the basis that it's called The Care and Feeding of Your Atomic Bomb. Why? WHO KNOWS.

And then there is the Fraser/Ray/Ray, which only got a title yesterday and is apparently called Magnetic, but it's actually called that not because of a recurrent theme of Ray rambling about things being magnetic (...although that is a theme, entirely to my bewilderment) but because it's part of a line from Carl Sandburg's Chicago, and ... yes.

By which I mean: I am glad to hear we still have the brainshare, and also unless it is a sekrit I would love to hear the title of the Merlin AU.
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[identity profile] fahye.livejournal.com 2009-02-17 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
The title is 'miss the train before', from a GK Chesterton quote: The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

Because it's about mistakes both deliberate and otherwise, and also about travel.

[identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com 2009-02-18 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
*snort* That is a trufact, that is. About the train.