I don’t know about you, but occasionally I sit down to write a fic. Mostly, I even finish said fic, and sometimes I even have the gutts to share it with the world. That is: if I find a decent title. Seriously, I admire people that sit down, open their writing program, type in a title and then start writing their fic. In my case I mostly skip the title and start writing, hoping sooner or later the title will miraculously pop up in my head. Happens barely ever. *sighs*
I will sit at my desk, stare at the writing program and the stupid working title and try to come up with something which isn’t completely stupid. I open iTunes, hope a song title will inspire me, or a movie title, or anything at all. Nope, nothing happens.
What do I do then? I start whining and mouning and pouting, and annoy my fiance half to death until he comes up with a brilliant idea – which mostly is “Go, ask Uncle Google and leave me alone!” Yep, that’s true love. *nods*
Anyway, I did ask Uncle Google, and he gave me some nice links:
1.) Fantasy Novel Title Generator
2.) The Instant Title Generator
3.) Random Title Generator
Like most generators they are crappy, and give you the most hilarious titles you will never be able to use – unless you plan to write a ridiculously silly and crappy fic, however they can give you an idea, or two… maybe even three and eventually you will come up with an almost decent title. However, I keep hoping one day we all agree to simply number our fics and stories. Like Beethoven did with his synphonies. LOL
Anyway, while browsing for something that would help me finding a title, I also stumbled across The Bookshelf Muse, a blog that has a nice emotion thesaurus, as well as a setting thesaurus. I find both collections more than helpful – imagine your main character is in mortal danger, or falling in love, or… and you struggle to find the right words to describe his/hers/its emotions, or you are sick of using the same descriptions over and over again. The Bookshelf Muse and its emotion thesaurus is your life saver. I especially love the anger section. So many ways to decribe your MC flaring up… For me as someone whose first language is not English this little collection is more than helpful.
Also, they provide a setting thesaurus, helping authors to describe certain scenes. I mean, we all know what a café looks like, what people do there, and that waiters/waitresses run around like headless chicken in the afternoon because the café is full with customers who want their caffeine dose like yesterday, yet you fell like failing to describe the atmosphere. Again, the The Bookshelf Muse comes to your rescue. I can’t express how much I like this blog. Their theausures help so much to improve your writing and make it more vivid… You should really check it out!
