I read something interesting the other day. “Titles are the lens through which we read a story.” It makes a lot of sense. A title can enhance or reverse our understanding of a story. It’s like labels. If you see two people arguing and fighting and kicking each other, it would be quite different if we called them “silblings,” “boxers,” or “husband and wife.”
So, we love labels, and they help us understand and appreciate. Great. What Mr Bell recommends is for us to imagine whole novels just from a powerful title. To do that, you come up with titles!
So this game we will spend an hour coming up with book titles. (Btw, I assume you’re following along, making up your owe titles, right?)
. . .
The Instagram Murders
Rap with an E
Gay, Why?
Broken Bones
Healing, Not I
Fine Porn
Blue Ink
The Tattoo Artist
Paper Planes
Chocón
Silver and Blue Skies
100 Ciorbas
Inelele
The Agony Stone
The Legend of Satie
Sike
Tykes
Poison Ivy
Once a MILF
Wool
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Meccas
Crab Position
El silbato del albatros
The Genius of Lies
Mr. and Mrs. Gorgonzola
Flotar
Mist of Woe
. . .
Omg that was hard . . . to be continued . . .
