So what's the title of your 2007 NANOWRIMO masterpiece?

I tried a few months ago to write a novel inspired by my short-term mission trip experiences in Africa, and didn't like what I had, so I'm throwing it all out and starting over as my NaNoWriMo effort. But I'm keeping the title from my first version: "Soapstone." I love some of the soapstone carvings I saw in Kenya -- we got the chance to buy some one year in a little town called Tabaka, and then we'd see the same things for four times as much in souvenir shops in Nairobi.

It's not particulary relevant to my plot, actually; I just like the ring of it.

Good at naming characters, bad at naming novels.

Strictly a working title, because I am not exactly certain of the tone of the thing yet. BUT I WASN’T READY. The story is about a woman who encounters a number of ghosts who tell her their stories, and the common thread is only that they were not finished with something--a thought, action, something. At least, I think that is what it is. Not original. Nothing new under the sun, trala

Well, the last two years I've chosen my titles somewhat randomly, and then found out that they fit the story pretty well by the time I was done, so I have hope that this year will be the same. This year's:

Lost Secrets

I doubt if I'll have a masterpiece in 2007 (;-)) but I was planning on one titled "Halfway House", about a person in Purgatory who finds out that he has to help people overcome the same things he did wrong in life (think "It's a Wonderful Life" meets "Dr. Phil" meets "Batman")(sorry - the "think 'X' meets 'Y' thing got to be a joke at work, now I can't stop until it runs it's course)

I decided to do NaNoWriMo because I was writing a book at the prompting of my Stephanie Plum (Janet Evanovich) loving friend. She inspired me to write something between JE and Dean Koontz (lighter, but with lots of plot twists) called Music City Mayhem.

I plotted it, wrote a full-blown "treatment" (40 pages), interviewed all of the characters and did their bios - even wrote supplementary materials for a bogus web site written by one of the characters (hey if it was good enough for "Lost" and "Blair witch". ..)

Then on page 150, I hit a wall. A big wall. I decided to do what I do when writing computer programs - write a quick synopsis, and then toss the original away and let it marinate. But now I've solved the problem (helping someone on the forums here solve a bank robber problem - totally unrelated) so I may do the Nashville base one. Hey, it needs to be rewritten anyway, and I literally would have had to toss the whole thing out anyway when I solved my plot problem)

Anyway, long answer to a short question.

I've been completely nowhere on titles until just this morning, when I finally thought of something that DIDN'T make me want to throw up: Some Fantastic

I like the sound of it, but is it bad that it's named after a Barenaked Ladies song?

Mine's called "Arcadia, My Destiny". Simply put, Arcadia is the ship the MC inherits, and goes through a grand adventure because of it.

As is in my sig 2007's NaNo will be titled _Have This Wish_ to finish my three book series. I actually had to change some things around because I started plotting having forgotten the central wish theme running through the books, luckily that is something easy to add in....and I've got a prologe (I'm all confused on how to spell that now since I read a thread about Brittish stuff) now to put in.

Dollhouse

It fits. It's subject to change, but what isn't? It's about living dolls and romances etc. The beauty school is called the "Dollhouse" and then there's "Ken's Dolls" where one of the MCs goes after graduating... I'm thinking of making it two words, though. "Doll House". i dunno. I just need to plot. XD

Hi everyone! This is my first nano, so I'm very go with the flow.

My title is "Welcome to Moe's Pizzaria Shack, Home of the Destiny Pizza." I took the idea from Brad Paisley's current hit. "Online." Set in Moe's Pizzaria Shack in my made up town of Port Harmony, FL, there's a whole cast of charachters. My MC is sort of a slob who spends all his free time online pretending to be someone he's not. A pretty co-worker accidentally catches him at it and plays him like a violin.

The Destiny Pizza is a pizza with a message written in the toppings, a sort of fortune cookie pizza. It's very popular. Some of the employees play this game. Try and guess a customer's personality by their pizza toppings.

I don't have a huge plot yet, but I hope once I get going I'll have something. I hope to see it through and not have to start over in the middle, as in my current WIP. We'll see. :OP

I like one word titles, so I'm going for Vignette.

My story is about a chick that owns a mystery book store (haven't named the store yet!)... One day she's shelving a book about stalkers and a picture of her, taken without her knowledge at the bookstore falls out...Who did it? Why???

Anyway, a vignette is the small image at the front of a book, so I took a teeny bit of creative liberty to use the word, but not much, so I really like the title.

On my profile, I have Memories of Time... which I don't really like. This morning I thought of changing it to Flash Time... which I don't really like. Aaargh, generally I do not have this trouble with titles!

The story is about how changing history, even an apparently small random event, would create eterenal chaos.

Ah, well the title will come.

I think in My NaNo I have "something to do with a quote from Neil Gaiman "a weregoldfish that turns into a werewolf at the full moon" :p Yeah so something Fishy, Goldie, uh yeah don't know. I don't even have a name for this kid :p Pretty much I feel like he's my imaginary son so I don't want to give him the name I'd use for that. I used to have a baby name book but I don't know where it went to. :p

The er sorta plot: Kid wins a goldfish at a carnival and takes it home. Discovers it's like the plant from Little Shop of Horrors and needs to be fed meat and/or blood. Mom freaks and tries to take it back early next morning but the stand where he won it at is no longer there and no one remembers it. (of course :p )

uh weird things will happen with the fish. It tries to attack the pet ferrets who it knows to be agents for the other side.

oh I descided at some point to cross over into a dream space so there are two spaces and the kid is magical or something not sure yet.
(oh yeah since I all ready knew I'd be writting drivil in I went with some stuff my friends have done on our site with cows, penguins, lobsters and sporks so one side is black and orange and the other side is purple)

However the purple side is The Purple Lion an actual creature from my nightmares as a small child that I know tried to eat me though the only dream I really remember is the time it disapeared in my house.

Um at some point the black and orange and purple sides meet and The Kid has to figure out which side is right (if any) or at any rate which side he should fight with or support or something yeah at this point everythings a grayish blob :p

Did I confuse or weird out anyone else :)

Anywhoo, Memories of Time sounds cool well the idea anyway. Sounds something like It's A Wonderful Life or something. I realized once that if my parents had chosen the house I really loved when we were house hunting I would have had a gone to a completly different school, a different set of friends that wouldn't have come up with a phony boyband/micronation that would take me to a Laser Tag place where I was to meet my future husband :)

Ziggy

Forgotten

Because one of the events of the book is that the main character is erased from the memory of everyone who knows her. This is book one of a YA series (top end of the age range YA), which has alternating 1st person POV characters (like K.A. Applegate's Everworld series, which is what inspired me to use the format), and each one has a single word adjective for the title (Captive, Stranded, Hidden, Alone).

The titles are pulled very directly from major plot points, but I'm also hoping to work them in thematically as well. That'll come in the rewrites, I'm sure.

Hymnal

Conveys the "southern gothic" tone, as well as facilitating the leitmotif of songs sung by the principal characters.

that Forgotten one kinda sounds like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

I tried to read Everworld but couldn't really get into it.

Ziggy

Superiority Complex

It's about a girl that plays quarterback and decides she wants to play college but her four brother won't let her because of the whole gender/size issue. Okay, if anyone is a UT fan [and you don't have to admit it if you are], think Colquitt family with quarterbacks instead of kickers, and you have my inspiration. Only, you know, female.

I'm really not sure whether or not I like my title. I don't think I do, but it's the only title I have for the moment. I'll just let the story build itself and see where things go from there. ^_^

Mine is called "Lessons in Understanding" right now. YA novel about a girl who has to deal with her schizophrenic brother, with many subplots that I can't explain right now since school's almost out here and the computer has to be shut down. XD