I don't have one yet, even though I've finished my Nano. Think I'm going to have to re-read it and see if anything jumps out at me....
But how about all you chaps? What is your title, if you have one, and how did you come up with it? And if you haven't, what on earth do you plan to do?
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. "
-Vladimir Nabokov
100,789 / 50,000
Nov 23, 2007 - 07 25
"Epidemic" for the one, which is just descriptive -- and was also the working title of the RP it was originally. Technically wrong, though -- it's a pandemic, but that doesn't have the same ring. :p And "Ladies of the Sea" is... well, the name of the ship is "the Lady of the Sea", and the two main characters are girls. xD
22,700 / 50,000
Nov 23, 2007 - 08 24
Working title for my unfinished (and likely to remain so) novel is:
Kari and the Elven Crusade
Bit melodramatic for what it actually contains...
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Nano 05: Excess Baggage (chicklit) - finished at 50,100!
Nano 06: Moving on (literary fiction) - unfinished at 50,090!
Nano 07: something to do with elves in a wood... for kids
50,154 / 50,000
Nov 23, 2007 - 08 35
Still sticking with the working title of 'Gravestowne' for mine...
----------2005: fell at the dreaded week two
2006: winner (hurrah!)
2007: winner again (hurrah!!)
85,265 / 50,000
Nov 23, 2007 - 08 52
The Mutual Poisoning Society
I found it in the copy of New Scientist that ran the week before Nano started. When I'm stuck for a title I open my Complete Works of Shakespeare and close my eyes and jab a finger at the page. Usually I find something that fits, for a little while at least.
50,520 / 50,000
Nov 23, 2007 - 08 56
I'm using "Hephæstos Reborn" at the moment, though it may have to change. Stupid story is doing all sorts of weird things I've not been expecting.
Hephæstos was the Greek God of artisans and forging and the like (Roman equivalnet is Vulcan.) Anyway, I have this really weird alien race that sort of self designs itself rather than evolving in the classic sense. And humans have found them. And there's inevitable clash. No idea what the resolution is going to be yet though. I was looking at doing some kind of symbiosis - i.e. the creation of human v2.0 hence the God reference and all that. We'll see.
50,035 / 50,000
Nov 23, 2007 - 18 16
Winter Court
For a fantasy setting the wars come to an end as winter approaches. Little too hard to move troops through snow and find enough food for the army etc etc and everyone gathers at the various castles and palaces for a winter of chatting, intrigue, assassination, alliances, marriages and whatever else takes their fancy. My 5ok is one winter's happenings at a mountain palace, so Winter Court it is.
50,069 / 50,000
Nov 25, 2007 - 09 07
My working title was (and still is on the site) Nightfall because the story takes place in the dark. Then I thought, well that's going to be an awfully short story. It takes just one well placed pit and my MC is kaput!
So I cheated and tweaked the world so living creatures glow from the inside. When you die, your glow dims and goes out. If you've (like one character) decided to graft dead limbs onto yourself, you would glow and they wouldn't. Because of this and some character issues, the new working title is Luminescence.
50,249 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2007 - 17 16
My title is Flight.
The premise at the start, in fact the only idea I had, was that there was a girl, trapped in a castle and she had to get out.
During the time she was trapped in the room, an arrow was fired through the window
She ends up on this quest (ah, you may have guessed it's a fantasy story) but there are some monster-creatures following her so she has to escape from them
Hence Flight
(although there's aways a chance it may change when I actually finish it...)