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Old 11-03-2008, 01:59 PM   #1
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Book title

I've had ambitions to become a writer for years. First I wanted to make films then TV then after last year I decided I wanted to write a book. Basically its been ideas and doodlings for years. I never really finished anything and have always put myself down (or 'sabotaged' as my councellor said) before I came close. But with so much free time on my hands I've found writing to be a huge help. I currently writing a teenage/young adult novel about suicidal loners such myself. Everyone says write what you know and this so true as words are just flowing out of me.
Anyway that's to give you guys a general idea of what I'm doing. The only thing I'm struggling with is a title for the book and thought you could help me out. The best titles I've come up with is 'Drifting' (meaning drifting through life) and 'Pleasures for Pain' or 'Pleasures and Pains' (which is obvious). What do you think?

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Old 11-03-2008, 02:17 PM   #2
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The title of the book I'm writing lends itself more obviously because it's a faux-naive thing written about a young girl, so the name is intentionally childlike in 'Susie's Doll'. With something like yours, I'd be tempted to write more of it, maybe give it a working title if it helps you but be prepared to change it, then find a line or a couple of words from the prose itself that symbolises something about the narrative or the characters. An example of this would be 'Love, Actually' but that suffers because it's rubbish and doesn't mean anything. 'Prozac Nation' by Elizabeth Wurzel would be a better one.

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