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.
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 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.
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.
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
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!
Ok, so for me personally, I:
- decide it has to have the word 'World' in it
- ???
- Profit.
Kidding aside, I appear to be one of the rare writers who has no issues with titles So since this thread isn't about giving actual helpful advice, I pick my titles by ... intuition? Magic title-picking abilities? XD
(And ye, I'm happy with my titles; at this stage if I wasn't I'd totally have no qualms about changing it That doesn't necessarily imply my title is good - I tend to also get attached to titles once I've known my series by that title for a while, just like if someone you've know your whole life suddenly started going by a different name, it would feel weird even if people meeting them for the first time think it totally fits XD)
I chose the title Saiwalo for my webcomic right after I wrote down all the major plot of it. Having all the story written in front of me and all the lore and legends of the settings made me see what is the focus of it.
Saiwalo is a word from old germanic, it means "soul". Souls are the base of an important resin in my webcomic, that's what the evil guys are looking for, it's the reason one of the main character appears and starts everything.
I chose a world from old germanic because the story is set in Switzerland (the common language in all the cantons is german)