Titles come to me any number of ways. Sometimes a catchy title pops into my head and I just have to write a story to go with it. This happened with my yet-to-be-published middle-grade novel,
The Rabbit Ate My Homework, and a recently written short story,
Free to Good Home.
If a title doesn't come to me before the story is completed, I'll go back after the fact and comb through it to find a descriptive phrase or line that fits the story.
Listen to the Rain and my upcoming chick-lit novelette,
How to Cook Up a Disaster, were titled this way.
Sometimes I choose a symbol, image, or object that represents the story. That's how
The Perfect Ring and
Fallen Leaves got their titles.
There's as many ways to title a story as there are stories to be titled. Here's a really great article on titling:
Choosing the Right Name For Your Story.
Right now, I'm in the process of bundling several of my short stories (
Fallen Leaves,
Listen to the Rain,
Caring For Lily,
For Good or For Bad, and a bonus story,
Is This Seat Taken?) into a themed collection. The theme that seems to run through these stories is choices, and how the choices we make affect our lives in good and bad ways.
However, I am having the worst time picking a title for this series (even after reading that excellent article and several more like it!).
