I was going through my old stories that I started and later ditched long, long ago, and had a chuckle at my own expense at some of the VERY silly titles I used to come up with. I thought I might share them with you! Some of them are corny, weird or just plain unoriginal. All I can say is…
Enjoy!
A Realm Away – a princess falls in love with a shape shifter from the magical realm
Beware the Lion – This isn’t actually about a lion
Dangerous secrets – yes, very dangerous indeed
Decloir Manor – about a manor house and its mysterious owner
Dragon Jewel – about dragons and jewels
Emerald of the Stars – The main character has green eyes and magic
Green and Gold Magic – hahahaah… ahem… hahahaha
Lost – I suppose I was running out of titles
Lost in time – a faerie and a human accidentally travel back in time
Mazob Magic – not sure where I got Mazob from?? Though funnily when you type it in to Google it keeps correcting to amazon
Monicalet – the name of one of the main characters who is a princess (but doesn’t know it)
Mystical, Magical Realm of Soonkar –worst place name ever? Changed it to ‘Sokar’ later. You know when place names pop into your head and you wonder where they came from? Well, they always come from somewhere. (Sokar is from my favourite TV show)
Red Rose Day – this one’s about guardian angels
Run away – a time travel/amnesia romance. I’m guessing it was meant to read ‘Runaway’
Shape shifter – a girl falls in love with a shape shifter from a parallel world
Stairway to the Moon – what?? I hear you say
The Faeries of Ice and Desert – hahaha
The Light City – a city filled with ‘light elves’
The Other Land – I think the ‘other’ land might be where all the magic folks live
The Pirate Ship – a fantastical sailing ship that flies among the stars in space. I hadn’t figured out the oxygen and air pressure thing. Hang on, I feel like I’ve seen this before?
The Magical Twins – wonder what this one’s about?
The Moon and the Disk – yeah, I can’t even explain this one
Underground City – yes it’s a city, under the ground
Vampire Academy – must have been going through a Twilight phase
Welcome To Moon! – what’s with all the moons Millie?
There are more… so many more… but I think that’s way past enough. I would love to hear some of your own funny story titles from when you were younger. Please share if you have any!!
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Some of them aren’t that bad, though! I mean, I’d totally read Decloir Manor, Stairway to the Moon and some of the others 😀
When I was eight, I named a book series LBMJ because those were the main characters’ initials and I genuinely thought that that was a great name.
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Oh when you were only eight!! That’s so cute and way more inventive then I was at that age! The first story book I wrote when I was seven was called ‘The Lost Puppy’ lol 😂😂
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Haha not so much considering all the characters were -ahem- very strongly based on me and my friends xD It’s so emotional to read over old stories, isn’t it?
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Yes it is! It’s like a time machine 🙂
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Actually, some of these titles aren’t all that bad. A Realm Away, Emerald of the Stars, and Decloir Manor sound like fairly legit titles. Some of the other ones, like Shape Shifter and The Pirate Ship….yeah. They’re just a little too upfornt about what the story’s about.
However, I do love this title: Mystical, Magical Realm of Soonkar. This title is so Roald Dahl meets Dr. Seuss. It needs to be a real book. 😀
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Hahah thanks! It’s nice to know the younger me wasn’t utterly off the mark – althogh the actual stories are pretty atrocious!! My favourite was A Realm Away, which I was writing when I was about 17/18. It got to about 20,000 words before I lost it (the file just disappeared one day, I was devastated lol). Mystical, Magical Realm of Soonkar is one I’m still working on – just for fun though. I’d be mortified if anyone read it! LOL
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If it’s any consolation, I’ve always thought of my current story as my Ambrose and Elsie story. I’ve never given it a proper title. 😶 <- (That's me being shocked beyond any proper reaction) That didn't even occur to me until I was already two years into writing the story.
So, now when I'm not writing, I like to daydream about possible titles for it.
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I love brainstorming story titles too! I always feel like, if I can just come up with the ‘perfect’ title, everything else will magically fall into line 🙂 Ambrose and Elsie is pretty cool anyway! I quite often use the name of the main character as a fill in until I come up with something better – although quite often the names become part of the title anyway. The first novel-length story I ever completed was called ‘Evie’. When I finally finished it, I renamed it ‘Someday’ – which wasn’t very original. It eventually transformed into ‘Someday, Evie’.
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And, for the record, I still think that The Mystical, Magical Realm of Soonkar is an awesome title. 😀 Just sayin’.
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Thanks hahaha
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You’re totally welcome! 😀
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I actually like many of your titles. Some are similar to some poems I wrote. One of them is Stairway to the moon where I wrote Stairway to the skies https://geethaprodhom.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/stairway-to-the-skies/
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That’s so cool how similar those titles are! Thanks for sharing 🙂
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Welcome 🙂
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These are great! I’m planning on writing a non-fiction book of part of my life, but can’t make myself write it until I’ve got a title. Maybe I’ll just call it something silly and change it later…
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Yes you should do that!! That’s half the reason these titles are so atrociously bad, they were only working titles I like to say!! Haha 🙂
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A Realm Away sounds really interesting. And what does Decloir mean?
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It’s really funny because I have no idea! I must have picked it up from somewhere because it’s such a random name
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I think my silliest title was: “The Invasion of the Squiggles” 😀
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Hahah that’s awesome !!
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‘The land of Green Ginger’ I presume it was a land of green ginger, but I’ve forgotten LOL
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Hahaha that’s classic!
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🙂
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I have always been terrible with naming anything I write. I wish I could think of some of the worst, but I try to block the bad memories. 🙂
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Me too! Naming things just never came naturally when I was younger. For my current novel I’m working on I was able to ask my friends for advice and they told me which title they liked the best (and gave me good feedback on why my other titles sucked, lol) Gotta love friends!
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I used to cheat and make titles that were song titles, but know I’m trying to be more original with the whole naming business. Friends do come in handy- a lot of the original characters in my story were named by friends.
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I call my characters after friends too!!! I usually change them only much later on when I really get a feel for the character (I’m a pantser so I never plan ahead or do character profiles ahead of time etc… hahaha).
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My favorite book with a wacky title was Rain Makes Applesauce by Julian Scheer. My 5 year old niece loves it too
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Rain makes applesauce!! Haha that’s so weird
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Haha! I love the pictures you put with these titles, especially ‘Back to the Future’. Perfect. ^.^ A fairy. :p You have a lot of book ideas. Ever plan to finish some of them? Titles can change you know. ^.^
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Thank you!! 🙂 Yes you’re so right, you can always change the titles!! I’m actually planning to work on ‘Beware The Lion’ after I finish the novel I’m currently working on.
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Awesome! That sounds like a good title. ^.^ I look forward to hearing about your progress.
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