How do you title your stories?

ravenquill

In the world of novels, many titles are actually the product of the publisher rather than the author. Tht titles are chosen based for the ability to cause a potential customer to pick up the book, read the introduction, and then purchase it They're much like the "hook line" used by song writers. Since most writers who post here have no such resource, we title our own work.

I'm interested in how you fit a title to your story. Usually I pick a title that relates to the main plot or theme of the story, and sometime something just seem to fit.

So:

How do you pick your titles?
Do you write the story and then pick the title, or the reverse?
What titles cause you to read a story rather than pass it by?

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Gypsy

How do you pick your titles? For my first story I chose the setting.The story I'm working on now,I'm using a play on words.

Do you write the story and then pick the title, or the reverse? The title first.

What titles cause you to read a story rather than pass it by? When I saw "Envy" By Sandra Brown I had to buy it I just finish one of her other books(I love her writing style) ... So when I saw the title being one of the deadly sins it peek my curoisty... It had a Fabulous twist at the end

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SlowHand

I do pretty much what Gypsy does as well when It comes to picking titles. In MindSpired some kind of revealing title of what a reader might expect to encounter inside the story is helpful.

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