I give everything a working title that's usually just one word that kinda relates to the story until the actual title comes to me. Because so much of the story can change as I write it, I want to get enough done to where I can think of something meaningful.
Usually go for something that points to what the protagonist wants the most. In Petrichor, it hasn't rained for years and people are striving to bring back the rain so that everyone can benefit from water, not just the rich, so the word for "the smell of earth after rain" felt thematically appropriate.
I like to come up with titles that are fairly unique, but so many titles are already taken, the easiest way to get unique titles is to use words that aren't even English. The title for my comic is "Kyklos Revolvis" which based on googling seems to be pretty unique. However I had to think carefully and do a lot of googling to pick those two specific words, cause I wanted something that would match the themes and subject matter of the comic.
Kyklos means cycle but it was used by some classical Greek writers to specifically refer to cycles of one type of government transitioning into another one. In the comic there is a widespread political change as revolutionaries are battling to overthrow monarchs all across the continent. However in the grander scale this is just one part of a larger cycle of governments being overthrown and new systems of government being brought in. On the more fantastical side, the setting has another repeating cycle, in times of great war and strife, the chaos serpent emerges from under the earth and stars wrecking civilizations until it can be defeated and sealed again. This mythical cycle involving some evil serpent is directly connected to the political cycle. Based on all this I found the word Kyklos suitable for my title.
Revolvis is a word that I'm still not entirely sure if its a real word in another language or its actually made up to sound like another language. Google returns a few results but I can't definitely say what its origins are. But it does sound like the word revolve, and it supports the word Kyklos in suggesting a repeating cycle, just like the planets revolve around the sun in a repeating cycle.
When I was a teenager, my favourite band, Judas Priest, put out a record called Turbo. It was (and is) derided by hardcore fanboys because Priest experimented with synthesizers (it was 1986) and they were trying for a more mainstream sound (again, 1986, so think Van Halen, Poison, Def Leppard, etc), but it was (and is) one of my favourites because it and I went through puberty together.
One of the songs on it is called Wild Nights, Hot & Crazy Days, and I adopted this as my personal anthem as a teen and well into my 20’s.
Fast forward 36 years, and when I wrote the story of my life Wild Nights, Hot and Crazy Days was a natural choice for the title.
My other book is a fantasy story about a dude named Daecon (rhymes with bacon) discovering by accident that he is a shapeshifter. He stumbled into this new world of magic and magical races and now must navigate his way through it while he tries to discover where he belongs. Finding Daecon’s Way seemed a fitting title.
I named my series after the names of my two protagonists and added Adventures! to it XD.
I also named my series Ice Cream Truck Of Doom because there is an ice cream truck of doom in one of the storylines and the name is cool 
When I was in high school a friend had spina bifida and was confined to a wheelchair. I did some cartoons for the school paper and one day decided to “hot rod” her wheelchair.
I called it “The Wheelchair of Doom”. Your ice cream truck of doom just reminded me of that. Come to think of it, I think I have a scan of that old pic (drawn in 1993 or so) on my phone.
Yup! Here we go! I didn’t know much about cars back then, and I’m a mechanic now, so I cringe at those “specs”, but still. It’s a pretty cool wheelchair.
I got the title The Lost Forest from a short story I wrote about the main character and her brother playing hide and seek in this vast and enchanted forest. Since that was a story that I wanted to continue, I decided to keep the same title.
I remember it was going to be something like this:
I JOKED about it on April Fools, but I was really considering giving it a long title but settled on "That Stick Figure Isekai" because of the simplicity. It rolls off the tongue better. Also story reasons that I can't really remember :v
I love this question! So get this, I’m in the seventh grade, I’m currently watching shows like the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles show and other cartoons like Aqua Teen Hunger Force. I always knew a long term goal of mine was to become an animator, but figured I would get my start in comics.
Well I was apart of my school’s newspaper organization and was in charge of the comics section along with two others. I had an idea to do short gag comics about a group of teens who “protect” their cul-de-sac from outsiders. I don’t know why I thought to include a giant sentient Apple companion to the teens but I did. I was going to be coined “The Action Society”.
Unfortunately, my school’s newspaper organization didn’t last very long and went defunct eventually, but I still held on to “The Action Society” concept. Remember when I said earlier that during that time I was watching TMNT and Aqua Teen Hunger Force? I got the crazy idea to make a comic series of my own focusing on ninja… fruits! It was essentially an amalgam of those two particular shows. Thus, add fruit to the name and The Action Fruit Society was born.
By "feel", very much how you would name a child or a pet. You have a few ideas in mind and then weigh the options until you find the perfect one. When the story is done, you know what to call it.
The original idea was a super sappy romance that was set in a space rebellion in an alternate timeline when the ottoman empire didn't dissolve and entered the space race, and because it was a sappy romance there would be Poetry so naturally the name came from an arabic poem or proverb - I'm not totally sure which one but It could be this.
Speaking to the Moon
I spoke to the moon, all my mind and feeling,
It listened so politely,
Stars everywhere were sharing
Our talk with no complaining.
Words were crawling over each other,
To express what I feel much better,
That night, I slept with no worry
About gossip or cheating.
And today, by opening my window
I saw its halo more charming,
And stars around
Were smiling, waiting for another talking.
Inas Essa
I'm kinda tempted to share the original plot synopsis because it's so off-base now.
Mine was a play on one of the main characters names. Her name is Baul (pronounced Ball). And the title is Little Ball of Hate. It's also her personality.
I actually came up with the titles for each part of my series first, then the series title last XD
So Dark Horse is a direct steal from George Harrison's song and record company. I liked it, because it has a couple meanings wrapped into it, which is why I chose it.
I also liked that it was short, and closer to the beginning of the alphabet. So I don't have to scroll as long to find it on lists XD
The other titles in the series I haven't gotten to yet all have their own meanings, but I won't babble about that until we get there 
Hi... well... the first title of my novel was "Chasing you till the end"... it somehow sounded like a thriller which isn't... it's a fantasy love story... so I decided for "Delilah, forever"... first I thought about the plot and then thought about the title... 
I love questions like this. For my first novel and the one I am working on, I came up with my titles by picking three words to describe some important points in the plot and making sure that the first and third words start with the same letter.
I wrote every word I could think of to do with the characters, the setting and just knights in general.
At one point I wrote "knight errant", and then I went "hang on a sec..." and sat and thought about it. A knight Errant is a knight who goes off on a quest, and we associate the word "errant" with knights... but the other way we commonly use the word "errant" is to mean something that's gone astray or isn't doing what it's meant to, and often carries a slightly comedic tone like "searching for my errant wife", "he was trying to get the errant remote that had fallen between the cushions.". So "Errant", just on its own was a title that gets across dysfunctional knights, and the single-word title hints at the modern setting and sitcom-like vibe too, because it sounds modern and a bit sitcom-esque.
My next thought was "...somebody else must have thought of this title. This can't be free, there must be another comic called Errant", but I googled it, searched Tapas and... rejoiced!
Usually, I either name it after a reoccurring instance. (Similar to Dragon Ball Z NOT starring the Dragon balls, obviously, but they're SO important to the plot/a driving force) OR; it's named after a person or instance in a artsy way.. ...most of the time....
