thirty days of fanfic, day seventeen

I really thought I posted this Saturday! Ah well, backdating is my friend.

( previous days )

17 – Titles – Are they the bane of your existence, or the easiest part of the fic? Also, if you do chaptered fic, do you give each chapter a title, or not?

Titles come to you. Usually for me they're from someplace, like an altered title of something else, or a line from a song or a novel. They show up and they just feel right, and usually they show up sometime in the middle of things.

I generally title the chapters in thematic ways. I find a hook of some sort and then find ways to make all of them fit.

( chapter title themes )

Since I had nothing to do the day I wrote this up, hey, I'll list where all the titles come from. I have written 140 stories including two drabble series.

( from the story itself, 47 )

( songs or song lyrics, 45 )

( books or book titles, 9 )

( movies or movie titles, 7 )

( other things, 10 )

( canon references, 7 )

( Rymon stories with lesbian titles, 15 )