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Abra Staffin-Wiebe ([personal profile] abracanabra) wrote2002-11-28 12:20 am

Possible Titles

Of the new short story I just finished:

CLONING ENLIGHTENMENT
EXPERIMENT #9: ENLIGHTENMENT
CLONES ACROSS THE DISTANCE
CLONING ESTRANGEMENT
EXPERIMENT #9: ALIENATION OF AFFECTION
CLONING AFFECTION
EXPERIMENTING WITH ESTRANGEMENT
THE ESTRANGEMENT EXPERIMENT
NO PRACTICAL GIFTS: EXPERIMENT #10
THAT DISTANT GAZE
THAT TERRIBLE DISTANCE
THESE THINGS TAKE TIME
CLONING THE PERFECT COFFEE

I cannot come up with a good title to save my life. I swear. I need a title-generator that scans the text of the story and produces the perfect title.

Note: the story isn't a comedy, so whichever one I settle on shouldn't sound humorous (and most of them do).

Suggestions?

[identity profile] erragal.livejournal.com 2002-11-28 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
How about Lab Number Nine
I think Lab is better to work with than Experiment. The latter is a bit awkward in a title.
If you like you can still have a subtitle of some sort... I'm not sure what the story is exactly about so I'll leave that to someone else.

titles

[identity profile] swnoble.livejournal.com 2002-11-28 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
The last four caught my eye more than the others. Maybe you could play around a bit with these. Distant Gaze, A Terrible Distance, These Things, Coffee#9? What's the gist of the story?

Re: titles

[identity profile] cloudscudding.livejournal.com 2002-11-28 09:27 am (UTC)(link)
The Gist:

A man whose previous marriage failed believes his current marriage is failing as well. He thinks that if he can figure out what went wrong the first time, he can prevent it from happening again. So he makes short-lived clones of himself and his ex-wife....

Re: titles

[identity profile] swnoble.livejournal.com 2002-11-29 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Here's the results of 20 minutes of brainstorming hope something sparks you.
Marriage v4.6
Marriage Under Glass
Test Tube Marriage
Till We Get it Right
Till Death Do We Part
Carousel of Love
One more Time Won't Matter
My Other Selfs
Love and Reason
Experimental Marriage
A Series of Mistakes
Fear of Being Me
Carousel of Selves
Romance Redundant
Experiments in Love
Does Practice Make Perfect?
The Science of Marriage
Mirror Image of Failure
Divorce With Compound Interest

and just for yucks
Dr. Love
Laboratory of Love

[identity profile] erragal.livejournal.com 2002-11-28 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
I don't really like titles that start with "that."
These Things Take Time is my favorite from your list.

[identity profile] xcorvis.livejournal.com 2002-11-29 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Isn't it obvious?

Clone 9 from Outer Space

I'd have to read it to make a real name suggestions, but These Things Take Time sounds like the best of the lot...

Re:

[identity profile] cloudscudding.livejournal.com 2002-11-29 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Clone 9 from Outer Space

Boo! Hiss!

[identity profile] stephdray.livejournal.com 2002-11-30 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Test Tube Marriage

I like this one. It has a certain worrisomeness to it.

The Science of Marriage

I like this one too. Though it's sort of intense for a short story.

My only brainstormed idea: Divorce in Duplicate

[identity profile] gunn.livejournal.com 2002-12-11 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
NO PRACTICAL GIFTS: EXPERIMENT #10 is the best, but it's rather funny.

Of the ones that don't impart humor, I like EXPERIMENT #9: ALIENATION OF AFFECTION the best.

Funk?

Re:

[identity profile] cloudscudding.livejournal.com 2002-12-11 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's the one....