Not so long ago when my kids’ legs weren’t long enough to bend over the edge of their car seats and every drive they talked cute gibberish continuous, I thought a successful podcast would be to record their nonsense stories and post each drive as an episode, no editing.
FOR SURE titles matter; take for instance, the other day I clicked on a post that popped up on my Substack feed based SOLELY on its title, which was "Should I Do Anal?"
My kids mostly kick and scream in the backseat, otherwise I'd totally be recording them. Come to think of it, I have, in fact, recorded the kicking and screaming and played it back to them to see if them seeing themselves in tantrum mode would make them stop. So far this has worked only twice.
I’m glad it worked! I imagine my kids viewing the recording as a greatest hits and requesting to watch over and over to laugh at how loud they had been. AND I read the same substack!
Titles absolutely matter, and are very difficult to get right. I tend to lean short and succinct. If I can consolidate a novel or story into three words or less that indicates I know what's most thematically resonant about the work.
I'm beta reading J.E. Petersen's novel and I have two potential comp title novels on my bed table that I may not get to before they're due back at the library.
I have so many things I want to write but am not writing. A screenplay version of See Dot Smile. A non-fiction manifesto. ANOTHER novel. A decent piece of new short fiction for my Substack.
I LOVE compelling/clever/engaging/titillating titles and my heart goes as much into choosing them for my stories as goes into the stories themselves. Sometimes the title comes first. Because I'm very progressive. 😏
We're gonna talk about our shared amazing-idea-hemorrhaging condition on Tuesday. 😉
FOR SURE titles matter; take for instance, the other day I clicked on a post that popped up on my Substack feed based SOLELY on its title, which was "Should I Do Anal?"
My kids mostly kick and scream in the backseat, otherwise I'd totally be recording them. Come to think of it, I have, in fact, recorded the kicking and screaming and played it back to them to see if them seeing themselves in tantrum mode would make them stop. So far this has worked only twice.
I’m glad it worked! I imagine my kids viewing the recording as a greatest hits and requesting to watch over and over to laugh at how loud they had been. AND I read the same substack!
Titles absolutely matter, and are very difficult to get right. I tend to lean short and succinct. If I can consolidate a novel or story into three words or less that indicates I know what's most thematically resonant about the work.
But how can 3 words contain the multitudes of my genius!?!! In other words - challenge accepted
I'm beta reading J.E. Petersen's novel and I have two potential comp title novels on my bed table that I may not get to before they're due back at the library.
I have so many things I want to write but am not writing. A screenplay version of See Dot Smile. A non-fiction manifesto. ANOTHER novel. A decent piece of new short fiction for my Substack.
I LOVE compelling/clever/engaging/titillating titles and my heart goes as much into choosing them for my stories as goes into the stories themselves. Sometimes the title comes first. Because I'm very progressive. 😏
We're gonna talk about our shared amazing-idea-hemorrhaging condition on Tuesday. 😉