How to Title Your Book | Writing Tips

These ~three-ish words will be the most difficult of your entire novel :) why :)

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MY SHORT FICTION:
☾I Will Never Tell You This - The Puritan: http://puritan-magazine.com/never-tel...
☾Solarium - Minola Review: http://www.minolareview.com/shaelin-b...
☾Barefoot - The Fiddlehead [print only]: https://thefiddlehead.ca/issue/282
☾Wishbone - PRISM international [print only]: http://prismmagazine.ca/2020/04/19/pr...
☾Wishbone - video reading: https://vimeo.com/420052282
☾Cherry and Jane in the Garden of Eden - The Puritan: http://puritan-magazine.com/cherry-an...
☾Hold Me Under Till I See the Light - The New Quarterly: https://tnq.ca/story/hold-me-under-ti...
☾Beautiful Animal - Room: https://roommagazine.com/issues/twine
☾Zugzwang - CBC [excerpt]: https://www.cbc.ca/books/literarypriz...

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
0:56 - Title from concept
2:58 - Title from line (cool title hack!)
4:08 - One word titles
7:16 - Double meanings
8:46 - Compelling contradictions
9:56 - My favourite titles

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