Pick five, or ten, or more, of your fic titles. List them in your journal and explain how you came up with each one. Post this prompt as well, so that the meme spreads.
Drowning: I wanted something water-related with a negative connotation. I think this worked. *g* Please note my affinity for one word titles.
Steamy Conversation: I didn’t think this would EVER have a title. Thankfully, Philateley came up with this one to underscore the UST.
Turning Tide: Again with the water theme. I have no idea where the inspiration came from, but it’s probably my favorite title.
Trusty Sidekick: Comes from a line in the fic. However, to be clear, when I refer to myself as Jo’s and Ryo’s trusty sidekick, I don’t mean like this.
The Matrilineal Series: Macha came up with the series title.
Materinstva: It’s Russian for “motherhood.”
Hotel: I was listening to From the Choirgirl Hotel while I wrote this one, and the lyrics to Hotel fit, especially since Syd spends most of the story in one.
Countermeasures: Don’t know where this came from, but I had the title before I’d written a single word.
Departure: I’d moved on and was listening to New Adventures in Hi-Fi, because it’s such an amazing collection of songs, and they’re all about travelling.
Vanishing Point: Got this one before I wrote the story, IIRC, from reading the lyrics to Disappear while I was helping Macha find a title.
Prodigal: See, it’s all about the REM lyrics. I think Fretless is a great song for the Syd/Vaughn relationship (can we call it that?) in this series.
Overture: My other favorite title. I was looking through my thesaurus for another word for, I dunno, prologue, or something, and I love the double meaning.
Rites of Passage: The central theme of the fic, so it didn’t seem right to call it anything else.
Centered: I think that this was the first time Ryo beta’ed for me and that she suggested the title, but I may be on the crack.
Forefront: Easy–it’s the opposite of “Background.”
Plays With Questions: It’s one of the kinds of intelligence suggested by Gardner (Howard, not Amy), and I chose it because Josh and Donna are friggin’ morons. *g*