What does the title of your story mean?

Mine's pretty 'attention grabber' - The Love of a Werewolf. I made it pretty clear that there was going to be romance and werewolves lmao

Also - The Demon of the Sea... Again, it kind of describes the story. There's a Demon (shark-monster). In the Sea. My fisherman ends up falling in love with him

Oh wow, what a great question! And I love both "Apogee", @Missapogee and both of your titles, @WillowTree . Good titles, both of you.

It took me a looooooong time to finally come up with my title. I write a comic and a novel version of a story called "Regarding Dandelions". There's a particular scene which really drives this title home, but throughout the novel, we see two characters tamed down from their enthusiasm and their innocence, like the taming down of dandelions as weeds rather than the beautiful, bursting flowers they are.

Initially, I loved cool titles, and spent a lot of time searching for just the right one.

Then, I was explained that all search algorithms favor the words in the title.

So, my main concern is to add salient words in the title so people notice my story.

I went from titles like ‘She Kills Elephants and Men’ to ‘Trapped by the Mafia’.

My next book is going to be called ‘Alpha: Free Spirit’ on the cover, though the ‘secret’ name of this book is ‘Freedom of the Free’, a hard to translate Russian expression and a wordplay on the protagonist’s name.

I am having a hard time jamming the word Mafia in the title of the next book that started as ‘So Sad, Too Bad’ and probably will end up being called Bad Break... but, I suppose it will end up The Mafia: Bad Break or Breaking Up with the Mafia

The Memorable Bittersweet Days is a phrase I came with back in my highschool days, it sounded cool.
For the story itself it has to do with "that's life after all", bitter, sweet, bittersweet, but memorable too.

My title of my comic "Paw Print Promise" kind of infers the nature of the comic as it's about animals. It also tells of the specific part of the main story since there is a promise between characters. I also thought that the title was kind of sweet and cute since promises are sentimental and the alliteration just reminds me of fairytale stories. I wanted the title to have that sweet and cute vibe since that's the vibe I strive my comic to be.

My novel, It Takes Two to Tango, is kinda inbetween artsy and literal, I think? Not sure lol as it is an idiom. I just like the ring of it, and since it's a story about two people, I just went along with it. So, well, no particular reason. I'm bad at deciding title.

Mine is just "Red Shift". Named for the industrial Ayria song and also the astronomical phenomenon in which light shifts away from the observer into the red end of the spectrum.

I even animated an opening to the Ayria song for fun!

Aoihito is kind of a made up word, but it's supposed to mean "blue person". Since I'm a weeb and I'm bad with English sounding names characters have Japanese names, so Japanese title only made sense.

The Middle of Nowhere got it's name from the fact that the characters have no idea where they are, so yeah. It's a middle of nowhere. xD

I agonised over my title and wrote down a bunch of words to try combining to do with knights and magic and the story premise and then noticed one of the words worked completely on its own. "Errant". A Knight Errant is a knight wandering the world on a quest, but "errant" can be used out of that context to mean something that's gone astray or isn't where it's expected or meant to be, and to "err" means to go wrong or make a mistake (like the phrase "to err is human"). It just felt absolutely perfect for an action comedy comic about modern dysfunctional knights.

Mine are pretty self-explanatory:

Five Levels of Fear: urban explorers trapped in a house with more floors (levels) than are on the blueprints and a crazy man.

Creature at the door: yeah, there's a creepy creature trying to get in

The most esoteric is Dead Souls Doing the Samba. I actually started out with the title and then let my imagination go insane for the story. But, it's an assassin hired to take out one of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Two souls who are essential dead dancing around death. Worked for me!

Titles are tricky.

Write hard, write true.

Love those example titles I feel like light novels are in a competition for longest title as well, lol.

I wanted to stick to a two syllable title, but it was a challenge since so many things are taken already. Eventually I landed on Ring Spell, which is the name of a super important spell that defines the rest of the story, so it ended up being pretty perfect for what the story is and what I wanted The only issue is it does take a few chapters to get to the super important story defining spell, which the comic won't be at for awhile still

Hi @Missapogee

I gotta admit, having a title like Apogee is pretty clever,

Anyway, both of mine are suppose to be attention grabbers and invoke a comedic tone, but there another layer to each of mine,

GAMERS GUFF is suppose to imply that there's going to be a lot of trouble occuring with Dave and Ryan's adventures in their favourite video games.

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ONLINE HASSLE is suppose to indicate that this is about the heaps of problems that the characters go through when managing our social media.

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Interesting topic!
The Changeling's Sister has a bit of a double meaning to it. The story is about two twin sisters, one abducted by a Faerie. Now, depending on the different faerie lores out there, which of the children refered to as a changeling varies, being it the abductee or the "child" left in its stead by the Fearie.

I actually made a comic about it once:
Concerning Changelings and Fetches
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When I started Aegis, I kinda just yoinked the name from Greek mythology even though the story has nothing to do with it --or even has ties to the real world or history. It was high school me just being kinda stupid and shortsighted.

kinda long lore drop warning

In the context of the story, "Aegis" is the name of the (newly established) executive division of the UR (United Realms), kinda like the UN in real life. The protagonists of the comic work for the Investigative Division of Aegis, traveling around Mylur (the world of the comic) to do detective work and solve rather large situations that go beyond borders. On top of that, they generally settle disputes and help with local forces in their own matters, building Aegis' reputation and diplomatic relations with the Realms.

On a deeper level, the organization is seen as a symbol of Mylur's societies trending towards more united, progressive ideologies. A new, young, and optimistic generation is coming up--who want to move past the discriminatory and fractured past of their forefathers. People see Aegis as representative of this new, bold world (for better or worse). But every progression has resisting forces, and our protagonists have to become a shield: Acting as a bulwark for Mylur's advancing societies; and fighting against dangerous people and ideologies that would rather destroy than see the world change.

TLDR: I chose the title "Aegis" because people think of a shield when they hear it. It is the name of a law enforcement organization. But on a thematic level, it is also representative of the moral obligation people have to defend what's right and uplift the weak.

Mine is pretty literal, its a sage about people who survives in an hostile world
It has a little twist tho, because (spoiler) the people who suffers the infection but remains human is called 'the survivors' too.

My comic's title, Tokyo Star Memories, actually came from a small and fun image chart where you get your anime's title from the first letter of your full, middle and last names. I liked it and kept it around; personally, I don't see it as attention grabby. I guess the only literal part is "Memories" since it is a Slice of Life Comedy.

My novel 'Jade Kingdoms' refers to the meaning of the gemstone jade and the kingdom being the metaphor to your household. Jade is believed to protect, bring luck and ward off evil/misfortune, and I truly hope anyone can feel like their home is their kingdom.

It's not a happy story, as it is a story about domestic and cultural abuse.

For 'TreasureHUNT!!':

There's not much depth to it... it's a story about treasure hunters I had some cheesy underlying thoughts about "the treasure is not only the actual treasure but also the skills and friends you make along the way", but yeah, p straightforward.

For my upcoming comic, 'Dungeons & Dinosaurs: Royal Road Trip':

This one is similarly surface level and easy to understand at a glance. It's a dungeons & dragons slice of life comic wherein our DM decided there would be more dinosaurs than usual present in the campaign.

Royal Road Trip ties into the campaign goal/premise. The heir to the throne was assassinated and the protocol for selecting a new heir is to have Nobles with teams of adventurers in-tow travel the country to compete for favor and clout with the people. Cars exist in this setting and so we're quite literally road trip-ing around and doing hijinx.

I'm absolutely convinced that the DM probably took heavy inspiration from Final Fantasy 15 when crafting the plot, but the execution is definitely different enough to stand on its own~

my main novel is pretty literal and is called Blue Moon Ritual as it was a ritual during a blue moon (a second full moon in a month) that started the whole story. Four is the Number is a tad more cyptic and hints at a 4 person poly love. and my last one (that's still at the very start and not posted yet) is inspired by a phrase from FITN (be brave, be bold) that I shorted to Brave 'n Bold to hint at the more punkish nature of the story (TBH I love this title the most).