#step 2 produced “the eternal recurrence of the same” and “what's past is prologue”

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

I've found a really good way that I come up with titles is start work at 8.30am, think about literally nothing but the fic for the next 8hrs (while getting no work done), finish work, edit the fic a bit, scream, edit the fic a bit more, realise the time, realise when I'm due to get up the next morning, scream again, pick a word at random from the fic by closing my eyes and danger-scrolling, google synonyms for the word, post the fic, and then think of nothing else but that one word for the rest of the night.

voila. bone apple teeth.

honestly valid 😭 screaming is a vital part of the titling process. my strategy is basically step 1: descriptive working title — i don't remember what it was for THD but my favourite is be gay do crime (the crime is treason) from a later section of my original fic series. step 2: basically your strategy, i.e. think about the fic while i'm supposed to be doing other stuff (in this case, marking papers) and hope something occurs to me. step 3: check if i have any title ideas written down somewhere (this is where THD's title comes from — I saw a post about this paradox and had it in the back of my mind as something that would make a good title). step 4: look up lists of unusual words to see if any of them are vaguely thematically relevant and then step 5: basic descriptive title of what the fic is about