WIP Challenge - Check In Day 8 - Wednesday

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Poll #16605

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Yesterday and today I

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planned
1 (33.3%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

wrote
2 (66.7%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
0 (0.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

rested
0 (0.0%)

did something else
0 (0.0%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 6.00 Median: 6 Std. Dev 1.63

Terrible 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		1 (33.3%)
5		0 (0.0%)
6		1 (33.3%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		1 (33.3%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Wonderful 10		0 (0.0%)

For many of us titles and blurbs are the bane of our existence. How do you come up with those?

For titles, I sometimes browse a dictionary or use a thesaurus to find words that sound good that fit what I've written. My mind tends to go blank when I reach that point, and a dictionary is a way of jogging it into thought. I also use very tiny snippets of poetry, not even enough to be a quotation most of the time. I like Random Poetry for that, and when I have spare time, I pull up poem after poem and write down the fragments that strike me as possible titles.

Blurbs are harder. I usually end up with something very bland because I'm trying both to give an indication of what the story's about and to avoid making potential readers feel like they already know what's going to happen and so don't need to read the actual story. I don't have any good techniques for this, so I'm very curious as to what other people do.