I know I’ve written on this before, but one of the most challenging aspects of writing a novel is figuring out what the title should be. Sometimes I’ve gone in with a decent idea what the title should be, but that’s the exception rather than the rule. Most of the time the novel is long past the writing process before I can figure something out.
I’m running into that right now regarding my newest
novel. As a reminder, it’s a
sci-fi/fantasy mashup where a starship from Earth(far in the future) goes to
find a colony world and discovers a world populated by humans, elves, dwarves,
and an assortment of monsters, all run by magic. A title should capture the essence of a
story, but how to fit everything into the title so it is still enticing without
being cumbersome. Basically, be enough
of a tease to draw folks in without giving away the store.
Titles also create attention as a marketing tool, so they
have to be created in accordance with the desire to attract new readers. I’m hoping that sci-fi and fantasy fans will
want to come along, so how do I package that?
I’m sure I’ll spend the next year or more(the timeline I think it will
take to write given my current pace) figuring that out.
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