I'm sort of writing a parody of the typical "prophesied chosen one joins the rebels and overthrows the evil empire and lives happily ever after" fantasy. The plan is to split the novel into three books, with each part having a descriptive sub-title that reads more like a short generic synopsis. Unfortunately, I've not read sufficient amounts of bad deriviative fantasy to be able to come up with them.
I'm toying with book one being titled "The Heroine's Horrible Relatives/Adoptive Parents and How she Proves she Really is Really, Really Special".
Book three's potential title is "The Heroine Murders the Lawful Ruler and is Given her Just Reward" or possibly "The Heroine gets Crowned, gets the Girl, and Lives Happily Ever After".
I've no idea how to condense the stereotypical book two of a fantasy trilogy. I'm toying with "The Heroine Discovers her Secretly Still Alive Mother", but I'm not sure whether the discovering unknown family is a bad fantasy sub-plot, or in Star Wars and therefore in Eragon, and therefore a sub-plot in a bad fantasy.
As I'm (again, sort of) taking a wrecking ball to the entire three book stereotypical fantasy plot, the titles don't need to bear any relevance to the story (the potential title to book two, if it survives, will be appearing crossed out).
So... anyone got some better potential titles, especially for book two?
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Nov 4, 2009 - 06 17
The Heroine has a really bad time of it as things appear to get worse, only to come through in the end
Things begin to look bleak, before the heroine appears
variations on that sort of theme, though the secretly alive mother also works. ^^;
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Nov 4, 2009 - 08 01
How about something like "the Heroine has further adventures and manages to survive them but does't get everything sorted out by the end because we have to leave something for book three" ?
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Nov 4, 2009 - 08 11
Check out some 19th century literature. Books from the late 19th century in particular often have chapter titles like "Chapter the third, in which our intrepid hero undertakes a journey, falls from a dirigible to his apparent death, only to be rescued by a flying unicorn and carried into the ether."
They're hysterical, ridiculously descriptive, gloriously generic, and entirely too fun to write (need to pad your word count? Add chapter titles!).
As for book two, something along the lines of "The heroine unearths a previously unknown secret and her life alters dramatically." might work?
----------Euphemia (2008)
Heir of Solland (2009)
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Nov 4, 2009 - 09 39
Mine has a prophesy too but she doesn't directly do anything. It's more of the pieces falling in place around her. They don't believe in the prophesy but use it to their advantage.
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Nov 4, 2009 - 10 12
Tv tropes to the rescue!
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Toying with widgets!
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Nov 4, 2009 - 10 21
TV tropes is a goldmine when parodying cliches.
To do those sorts of synopsis, just try and make it sound cliche as possible. Like "After his home is destroyed, a young farmhand embarks on a journey of revenge. Little did he know he was taking the first steps down the road of his destiny."
----------"I still remember the day all the madness started. I saved the world from living hell...and doomed us all to something much worse."