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I'm in a reading slump. :(

The last book I read and enjoyed was The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz. Cute story about an asexual human falling in love with a robot that runs a tea shop. My main complaint was that it was too short!

I really enjoyed How To Sale A Haunted House by Grady Hendrix. Some balls to the walls crazy scenes.

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman is great if you are looking for non horror.

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I don't remember the context, but somebody on here replied to one of my comments and mentioned Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws by Kate Bornstein a few months ago, and I'm almost done reading that. I don't know if I love it, but I am 32, and I do think it's really interesting and it has some tips I find useful. :)

Most recent thing I read (other than a couple of erotica ebooks) was Untethered Sky by Lee Fonda. I quite enjoyed it. A steampunk of sorts, plus an unusual mythic creature used (in this case a Roc), plus a well-written main character.

No, all garbage tbh. I'm sorry I bought those books.

I've been reading quite a few auto/biographies because my local library had a few new ones recently.
my 3 faves being:
It Takes Blood and Guts by Skin (lead singer of Skunk Anansie)
Confess by Rob Halford (lead singer of Judas Priest)
Tove Jansson Work and Love by Tuula Karjalainen (about the creator of the Moomins and her various art works with and without the Moomins)

Story-wise I really enjoyed the first two Becky Chamber books, starting with:
A Long Way to a Small and Angry Planet.

I'm starting on Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas and it seems promising so far.

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Ooh, that sounds interesting. I’ll have to check it out. I recently read When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb and I really enjoyed it. I actually finished it in one day because it was that good.

I just read 'Wool' by Hugh Howey. Post-apocalyptic kind of mystery kind of horror thing.
I enjoyed it a lot, even though I found some of his writing style choices a little labored. There are two more books in the series (Silo series), so that'll keep me going for another week or so.

I'm in the middle of Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch. It's a super fun read.

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Maybe check out The Sum Of Its Parts series by E.M. Holloway.

Its so good. Its basically a modern day urban fantasy series. The main couple are a bisexual guy and asexual guy (who is also a werewolf). They are so cute and such a great relationship. Also love just the friend dynamics in the series too. Also tends to veer more into mysteries that the main lead has to figure out with the help of his pack.

I read the Captive Prince trilogy, and really enjoyed it. Never in my life have I read a book that required me to trust the process quite so hard and then rewarded that trust quite so thoroughly. By which I mean, the first one had me squicked as hell (noncon and slavery dynamics are very much Not My Kink), but man, I have to hand it to Pacat, she played the long game and she played it well. Everything I disliked from book one ended up contributing to making book two and three more engaging and rewarding.

Not like they were the best books I've ever read or anything, but certainly a fun, well-written indulgence. I would describe the series as reading "like fanfic" mostly in all the good ways, while still having solid enough plot, characterization, and world-building to hold its own as original fiction.

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I really enjoyed "Song of silver, flame like night" and am still on "A Day of Fallen Night"

It's one of my least favorite things about posting a fic. I usually BS a title loosely connected to a story, but my good old-faithful method is to pick a line out of a song lyrics from a favorite artist and find something that fits enough.

Honestly I don't know. Titles are the hardest part for me.

Either a song lyric or song title. Titles are hard.

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(Anonymous) - 2023-04-25 11:45 (UTC) - Expand

There was a trend in fandom awhile ago to be very Friends about it - all the titles were similar to "The One With the _____ " which honestly as a reader I appreciated because it actually helped me remember the fic and title.

As a writer, often it's a quote or a line taken directly from the fic. I try not to do song lyrics but I can understand the ease of that path.

That, or a line from the fic itself. But usually a song or poem line or quote.

For my Strangers Things fic, it's a partial lyric from an 80s song relevant to the story, a song that came out before or during the specific time period when the fic is set.

When I was writing a lot of prompt fic for a Teen Wolf Kink Meme, I used a lines or partial lines from the show for titles.

Sometimes it's a play on words that maybe only makes complete sense to me, and sometimes, it has to do with something significant that a character says or does in the fic.

all my House fics had titles beginning with the letter I because the first two happened to and I thought it was a good gimmick so I kept doing it

It's different for every fic. Sometimes it's a line from the fic, sometimes it's a play on a line said in canon (but never an actual line said in canon), sometimes it's just a vague phrase or word that I think fits it somehow. I never use song lyrics because I try to keep my fic titles to something that someone else hasn't already used (preferably at all, but at least within the fandom).

Re: How do you choose a title for your fanfic?

(Anonymous) - 2023-04-25 04:01 (UTC) - Expand

Sometimes I'll code-name a fic while writing it, and maybe derive a title from that. Or I'll just have an idea in mind already. Once in a blue moon, I'll use a song title/lyric, or a phrase from the fic itself (or create the title first to be used in the fic). Other times, it's just random.

NGL I went through a cinema loving phase so at some point I began to see my fic titles as movie titles. I think of the theme(s) of the fic, what was the working title and can I somehow find a title by reworking words/phrases, does the title seem attention grabbing enough without seeming too wordy or too vague, will the title seem clever/funny/ironic/full of deeper meaning if a reader were to finish the fic and look back up at the title?

After writing a few dozen fics in the last couple of years, I believe my approach doesn't garner more interest/viewership nor any engagement from any readers that indicate to me anyone gives any flying fucks about my fic titles.
But I have fun creating titles this way. It's like a fun little game I play with myself for my own enjoyment.

By the seat of my pants and the skin of my teeth.

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