Let's Talk About Titles (Again)
May. 30th, 2012 08:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rsadelleI know, I have questions about titles all the time. I honestly find coming up with titles to be the hardest part of posting fic. Today I have just two specific things to ask about.
First, how do you feel about lowercase titles versus capitalized titles? It never bothers me when other people have all lowercase titles, but I always feel pretentious using them myself. (Like, I want to preemptively tell people who might scoff that I do understand title case and the lowercase section headings in Leads to Another Kiss were an artistic choice.) Part of that, I think is that lowercase titles seem like they should go with more literary things while I tend to write very straightforward stories.
Secondly, what if a lyric works as a title for the story, but the song as a whole doesn't? Will people notice? And if they do, will it bother them? Or should I just use the lyric?
First, how do you feel about lowercase titles versus capitalized titles? It never bothers me when other people have all lowercase titles, but I always feel pretentious using them myself. (Like, I want to preemptively tell people who might scoff that I do understand title case and the lowercase section headings in Leads to Another Kiss were an artistic choice.) Part of that, I think is that lowercase titles seem like they should go with more literary things while I tend to write very straightforward stories.
Secondly, what if a lyric works as a title for the story, but the song as a whole doesn't? Will people notice? And if they do, will it bother them? Or should I just use the lyric?
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Date: 2012-05-31 03:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-05-31 04:40 am (UTC)and I think it's kosher to use lyrics that work with the story, even if the entire song doesn't fit. that wouldn't bother me at all
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Date: 2012-05-31 02:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-05-31 02:30 pm (UTC)Two votes for makes me way more likely to just use that title!