#WritersCoffeeClub 3/Jan: How do you come up with the titles for your works?
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#WritersCoffeeClub 3/Jan: How do you come up with the titles for your works?
Sometimes the work emerges organically from the title. And sometimes the title is an afterthought, slapped on a nameless work after it's finished. I've had both.
But in the final analysis, in trad publishing, the author only gets to suggest a title: the publisher can change it at whim, for marketability if nothing else. And I've had a couple of those, as well. ("Singularity Sky" was originally "Ship of Fools".)
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#WritersCoffeeClub 3/Jan: How do you come up with the titles for your works?
Sometimes the work emerges organically from the title. And sometimes the title is an afterthought, slapped on a nameless work after it's finished. I've had both.
But in the final analysis, in trad publishing, the author only gets to suggest a title: the publisher can change it at whim, for marketability if nothing else. And I've had a couple of those, as well. ("Singularity Sky" was originally "Ship of Fools".)
Footnote: ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS run a title search for your proposed title through Amazon's database, and maybe Goodreads and one other (non-AMZN) source, to make sure you're not stomping on someone else.
Also, run individual words through web search (NOT AI) to see if they overlap with a famous band/film/play/TV show/trademark.
Unless you're Stephen King you're coming from behind, and a top-level search hit on someone else's IP will swamp readers searching for your book.
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Footnote: ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS run a title search for your proposed title through Amazon's database, and maybe Goodreads and one other (non-AMZN) source, to make sure you're not stomping on someone else.
Also, run individual words through web search (NOT AI) to see if they overlap with a famous band/film/play/TV show/trademark.
Unless you're Stephen King you're coming from behind, and a top-level search hit on someone else's IP will swamp readers searching for your book.
@cstross also Google your main characters names, just to make sure you haven't accidentally written a novel whose main character's name is the same as the Croatian word for vagina... Or similar... Unless of course that was the aim... On which case go for it...
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@cstross also Google your main characters names, just to make sure you haven't accidentally written a novel whose main character's name is the same as the Croatian word for vagina... Or similar... Unless of course that was the aim... On which case go for it...
@quixoticgeek @cstross
I collect fictional characters with mangled Scandy names. It's a truly proud tradition, including Jules Verne's magisterial and ridiculous ARNE SAKNUSSEMM. ❤️ -
@quixoticgeek @cstross
I collect fictional characters with mangled Scandy names. It's a truly proud tradition, including Jules Verne's magisterial and ridiculous ARNE SAKNUSSEMM. ❤️@mrundkvist @quixoticgeek @cstross "saknussem" has to mean "scrotum" in at least one language somewhere, surely?
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Before, you were seeing the same topics (more or less, I think the logic changed a little bit) but in a "topic list" style — like you were navigating into just another category.
While that worked fine, the vast majority of content was microblog content that did not come with a title, so one needed to be generated.
A topic listing with many many long titles (some of which don't function well as titles) does not a good topic list make 🙂
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@ireneista @mntmn @cwebber well it's a general purpose UI *now* but only in a very monkeys paw way
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@cstanhope @mcc @mntmn @cwebber I like it.
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We love it when changes have non-localized and unpredictable results;
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@aeva Short of a shinier trinket to distract VCs I don't think there are any.
I dunno, dig into quantum computing and see if there's anything cool you can make and/or fake?
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lol. LLMao
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@mntmn @cwebber management types have wanted this since the 1950s. it’s why COBOL and SQL exist; it’s why RAD exists. It’s why so called “4th Generation Languages” exist. Management would like nothing more to be done with needing to think about all those pesky details like “that’s a logical impossibility” or “that’s P=NP”, they want their word to be the word of god
