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"Cierra," asks a reader, "What's the hardest part about making a book?"
I sit for a moment and think to myself, 'what is the hardest part?'
Millions of ideas run through my head, but one cause me to stop and send a shutter down my spine.
I sigh before responding to the reader, "Coming up with a title."
The title is the most important thing about your book. It's the first thing people see, even before the cover. The title can be the determining favor of whether people will click on the book or not.
Titles can be extremely hard to come up with. Everyone wants a title that describes their book perfectly and brings in reads all at the same time.
Lets go over the Do and Dont of Titles
DO make your title intriguing
REMEMBER WHEN I SAID USING A DICTIONARY WOULD COME IN HANDY.
NOW WOULD BE A GREAT TIME TO USE IT.
There are so many words out there that describe other words.
Lets say your making a horror book and you want a good title that makes the book look good and makes it sound scary.
Well another word for scary is Eerie, unnerving, or chilling. Those are more interesting than the word scary.
Make sure your words you choose look good with the cover too. Nobody expects to see a happy book with a creepy cover, but we'll speak on covers later.
DONT make your title a sentence
it's almost the most unattractive thing about a book.
A title of a book can typical be from 1-5 words. SIX IS REALLY PUSHING IT, IT REALLY REALLY IS.
I have literally seen titles that can't even be fully displayed because they're so long.
EXAMPLE (nobody has a book titled this... Well I hope not)
Title: I was kidnapped by the shield and now I'm the first female member.
1. No.
2. No
3. God no, please stop.
I've see so many titles that EXPLAIN THE ENTIRE BOOK.
Don't make your "TITLE" you "SUMMARY." But we'll talk about summaries in a moment cause I'm not done yet.
Leave your title interesting and leave the readers wanting to find out what it could be about.
I'll just say straight up that sexual sounding titles will automatically draw more people. Don't ask me why, don't ask me how, they just do. They always do. People like sex. It's a real thing. It's not gross. It's just strange. And really hard to write :/ BUT WERE NOT SPEAKING OF THAT NOW.
Bottom line: Your title should reflect your book. Period. Don't have a title that makes 0 sense. There's a purpose to why you chose the title you chose, don't make it stupid.
On to these little bad boys called the summaries.
These can be somewhat complicated.
What you DONT want to do is reveal too much in your summary. As long as you don't do that, your fine.
There are several ways a summary can be written.
1. a quote. Just a quote from a character out of the book. Or maybe just a quote in general.
2. Third person narrative. EXAMPLE: Sasha Banks is a Teacher, Finn Bálor is a Mechanic. When they first met, there was no better way to describe it than love at first sight. But Finn has a secret bigger than his love for Sasha, and it may very well jeopardize they're relationship. BASICALLY YOUR TELLING US WHAT THE BOOK IS ABOUT.
3. A scene from the book. Thing about writing scenes is that YOU HAVE TO WRITE THAT SCENE AT SOME POINT IN THE BOOK. You can just write an intriguing scene for a summary and NOT do it for the story. That's click bait. That's WRONG.
4. Song lyrics. Basically just words from a song.
There are several different ways to write out a summary, most ways are pretty effective. Once again, you just can't give too much away.
CHAPTER REVIEW:
•TITLES ARE HARD BUT MAKE THEM MAKE SENSE
•DONT TELL YOUR ENTIRE BOOK IN INE SUMMARY. KEEP US GUESSING.
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Fictionology ➳ writing & cover tips
RandomA book in which I will probably roast myself into depression and become the one thing I hate, a hypocrite, just to give out a few writing and cover tips.
