Most of the time, I am with everyone else in the last-minute-use-of-song-lyrics-or-quotes-or-poems for fic titles. But occasionally I have the title before I write the story, and that's always interesting because it shapes the story as I write it: like One Full Day of Empty Threats, which whenever I wondered what should happen next, I threw in another empty threat. And Five Things and 10 Reasons stories are structured around their titles, which can be fun.
I'm enjoying the titles in the Gloriaverse, because I keep writing stories and then looking up the lyrics and going, "My god! This line is perfect!" It's almost like I planned it (ha! in fact Gloria named herself well before I thought of using the song).
Sometimes I use the names of movies (Leaving Normal, The Sweet Hereafter), partly because the show did that, but I always feel bad that people might google the film and find my totally unrelated fic.
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Date: 2007-04-24 11:43 pm (UTC)I'm enjoying the titles in the Gloriaverse, because I keep writing stories and then looking up the lyrics and going, "My god! This line is perfect!" It's almost like I planned it (ha! in fact Gloria named herself well before I thought of using the song).
Sometimes I use the names of movies (Leaving Normal, The Sweet Hereafter), partly because the show did that, but I always feel bad that people might google the film and find my totally unrelated fic.
Mmmm, yeah. Not much to add, sorry.