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11759724 No.11759724 [Reply] [Original]

How do you go about titling your stories or novels? Do you make shit up or use a line from the work or steal famous quotes? I'm thinking of swiping a Shakespeare quote for my novel but I worry it'll be too hackneyed.

>> No.11759728

steinbeck got the novel after doing that

>> No.11759745

The name just comes to me when it's ready. If I go looking for it+ it won't be right.

>> No.11759752

>>11759724
I call it the last noun used in the book.

>> No.11760258

>>11759752
Pretty based desu

>> No.11760265

>>11759724
I overdose on sleeping pills and whichever word I utter first in the hospital when (if) I wake up becomes the title of my next novel.

>> No.11761086

>>11760265
DEFINITELY based desu