WIP Challenge - Check In, Day 12 - Sunday

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Poll #14834

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Today I

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planned
4 (57.1%)

researched
2 (28.6%)

wrote
4 (57.1%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
3 (42.9%)

posted
2 (28.6%)

rested
2 (28.6%)

did something else
2 (28.6%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 7.00 Median: 7 Std. Dev 1.85

Horrible 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		1 (14.3%)
5		1 (14.3%)
6		0 (0.0%)
7		2 (28.6%)
8		2 (28.6%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Wonderful 10		1 (14.3%)

How do you come up with titles for your stories? Do you ever start with the title and write the fic from that? Do you struggle with the title as the last step before posting? Are you somewhere in between?

Usually, the title is the last thing I come up with. My working titles tend to be pretty boring and just descriptive enough that I don't forget what that particular document is. To find a good title, I sometimes turn to the dictionary or the thesaurus. Wandering through those volumes can sometimes get me to something I can use. I also keep a file of song and poetry fragments that I think might work as titles some day (I don't track where those fragments come from, however, so I've usually forgotten by the time I use them). Somebody linked me to a site that provides random poems from its database. That can be good for finding titles.