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Fun for Friday: Book Title Generator

| February 2, 2024

Whether you’re looking for a title for a book you’ve written or want inspiration for a book (or story or poem) to write, check out ImagineForest’s Book Title Generator. In addition to their generator, they link to a few others, and they also include a bit of advice on book titles. So even if what […]

Fun for Friday: Random Title Generator as Prompt

| January 20, 2023

I love random generators, so it’s no wonder that I’m sharing this Random Title Challenge prompt/generator! It uses dice to choose words from three lists, which you put together into a title and then use to inspire a story. The best thing about this challenge is that you can make your own lists of adjectives, […]

Titling a Story

| February 8, 2021

Last week, I talked about starting with a title and writing a story to fit it. This week, I’m looking at something like the opposite: when you’ve got a story, with no ideas for a good title. The first thing to think about when you’re trying to title a story you’ve written is whether it’s […]

Writing to a Title

| February 1, 2021

Many authors find that coming up with a title is considerably harder than writing the story (or book, or poem) that needs the title. However, some authors start with a title and write their story to fit that title. But first, you need a title. The good news is that there are random title generators […]

Choosing Titles

| August 7, 2017

Whether you’re writing novels or short fiction, titles are important. For one thing, you need them in order to keep track of your stuff. But you also need them so other people can keep track of your stuff. And while you could just call things “Book 1,” “Book 2,” etc., that’s not really all that […]