Finally.

I hate titles. And I love titles. I hate them because I can never come up with a proper title until I have finished my story in its entirety. Perpetual title block you could call it. But really, what is better than a good title? It’s everything to a reader. When you look at a story you see nothing of its substance and merit unless it is reflected in its title. I don’t title most of my work in the class because, for the most part, I hate writing short stories. I write chapters or beginnings, so I feel unfit to give my stories a name when I have yet to finish them. I don’t know how my story will change and grow as I write. It could end up completely different from the story I had planned, or I could scrap it all together. I have no idea what will happen, so I feel like naming it is like betting on a lame horse. It’s premature. Now, I respect people who are able to name their stories before they are done. Or even people able to cram a story into eight or so pages. I cannot do that. What I urge us all to do however is to really sit with a title before you put it on the page. It’s the most important phrase in your whole novel until your reader turns to the first page.