What's with the title?

[TimCaloweh]

Why'd you title your comic or novel like that. Does it sum up your story? Is there greater meaning behind the title? Are you just winging it? It takes a lot to make a story and just as much to give it a name. Now share a link to your novel or comic and the depth behind those first few words.

[mariusthered]

i cannot comment on my book because it's not on Tapas. but here is my comic

Blunderland | Tapas

quite easy really i wanted something that showed it was a parody of children's books so changing wonderland to blunderland was the obvious choice. the first few chapters deal with a younger version of my character in Earth realm, then he goes to blunderland and it all changes from there. he has a portal so can go between the two.

[grimnir]

Ooh, I love meaningful titles.

The novel I'm currently working on is called Soft Rains. And there's a lot of significance in the title, but honestly I was just making the whole thing up as I went along, and it made me think of a poem so I named it after that.

Soft Rains | Tapas

It did work out to fit the story really well, though. Rain is something of a symbol for renewal in the story (I'm from somewhere very dry, so I have a pretty positive view of rain). The main character is also named Rain, and she could be described as soft (which is somewhat ironic given that she's a robot).

[silverraven0]

Some times the title just pop up on my mind like, I just... thought about it while mixing some words that's looks more suitable with the sorry, but some times I also thought up a title for days, and that one is usually have a meaning behind it that no one but me knows what it was all about. Sometimes the meaning is 'there' on the story, some times it's just for me to know what it's mean.

[fleohr]

Who are you? | Tapas

I think the synopsis says everything, the place in his dream has lots of characters and one in particular makes him asks who are you?

I can't say much otherwise it's a spoiler

Quest Into The Unknown | Tapas

This one was hard to find a good title, there are lots of mystery, paths, and puzzles in the story, so it's more like not knowing what will happen next and where those puzzles can lead the characters to

[OneHappyChap]

Self-explanatory if you ask me...

Android Affection | Tapas

[gh0stcr33p]

the title of my comic is based on something that'll be important to the story later on, also I think it sounds cool and is easy to say

Mirror Monster | Tapas

[dawgofdawgness]

"Leftovers" is the word my MC uses to describe the beginner's jazz combo in her college, to mock the people who didn't have the talent to get into a decent group. When she's put in their by accident, though, she starts having actual fears of becoming a "leftover" in the music industry as she kind of ... obsessively tries to become well known :^)

Leftovers | Tapas

[violin]

My title does, in fact, sum up the story. XD The story starts when she goes to Tokyo for the summer and will end when she returns. But what happens in between... read and find out!

A Tokyo Summer | Tapas

[indigodrawing]

I'm still working on having enough material to start actually publishing (I've attempted webcomics before that have invariably died after 10 strips, and that was before I was also holding down a full-time job!) but I've settled for now on the name "The Bee Graders" for my current project. Why?

• It's about university students, who are graded by letter
• It's set in Manchester, a city whose mascot animal is the worker bee (for hard work and industry)
• The main characters are all kind of a bit weird and don't exactly fit in. Some might say they're not the best examples of their kinds, or B-grade stock.

I originally was going to call it "Escape from the student dungeon!" as a reference to my own experiences of living in university halls of residence, and I was quite attached to it because it sounded like a pulp movie (like Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters, or Plan 9 From Outer Space or something), but decided against it because a) it's too long, b) it's based on an in-joke nobody but me and my university buddies would have gotten and c) I don't see the characters living in university accommodation for the entire run because it's quite common for students to move to private accommodation after a year or two in halls when they're feeling a bit better equipped to deal with the stresses of the real world (and when they've finally had enough of the halls!)

I might still use that name for a chapter or something though!

[raekitano]

I'm not even going to link to my stories.
I suck at giving my stories titles.
It's often the last thing I do and changes multiple times until I'm happy.
On the rare occasion a title might come to me while writing and that's like a eureka moment
(The Betrayal and Remember Me.)
And twice I've had others title my stories for me after reading them. (Time For Destiny and Cat Got Your Tongue)
When I first save my stories to file it will be - The Death story (Choices), The Cruise (Diary of a Cruise Ship Hostess), Doctor Love (Twenty Day Stalker), Magic Something (Divine Intervention).

[VanilleFraiseCaek]

Our comic was titled "Slick Tentacles" because the hair style of the two main woman characters of the series looks like a "Slick Tentacles".

[jurinova]

I struggled with the title of my comic for a long time. At first I wanted something space related and short. I thought two words was the max, so people could remember it easily. Problem was I also wanted something unique and if searched online it would be the first result to pop up. I made a really long list of names and none of them sounded right or they were already taken.

Then I decided that why not have a longer name. Some classics have long titles and it never made them any less memorable. After that decision things got easier. However most of the titles were still a bit too generic, so I gave up on a scifi name and decided to go for a thematic one instead. That's how I got to the name Home is a Distant Wish. It's not obvious from the start how it fits into the story but it is the theme that binds many of the characters and story elements together. Is it the best title in the world? Absolutely not. Am I happy with it? Yes, yes I am.

Home is a Distant Wish | Tapas

[droidmonkey1]

I love names that have something to do with the story, if it's the theme or motif that repeats, a pun or even a word said only once but have a great meaning.

WDE is an acronym for World Domination Enterprise. the story is about a kid trying world domination.

WDE | Tapas

Deadhunter is named after the profession of the main character an afterlife retrieval specialist

DEADHUNTER | Tapas

[ar-ninetysix]

I don't have anything outside of pre-production, but I wanna jump on this!

Ok, I literally said "Dude, imagine if Momma's Boy was a manga, or an anime. Something about it sounds cool. I could see like fights in a school or something." in a conversation. I just wanna turn this into reality. Since then, I've been building my webcomic around solely based that name and the idea that it sounded like a battle shonen. "Momma's boy" is a bully's nickname for the MC. It's also a part of his character, he does love his mom, after all. So yeah, the title was the only thing I had to begin with!

The other one I'm working on is Star Pilot Kira. See, the story's about the journey of a young girl who wants to become a Star Pilot. The title's about her goal really, it's simple and to the point. For now, the ending I wanna get to is simple, but if I wanted to continue on past that in a second season or some sequel or whatever... well, the title would still make sense. There's a lot I feel I could do with it.

[zigmenthotep]

There's a world, there's slugs, ergo Slugworld

Slugworld | Tapas

Alliterations are always an appealing approach.

Fantastically False Facts About Amazing Animals | Tapas

[amberberry]

The title of novel and actually most of the story is inspired by a chorus from this one song I really like. Freely translated the chorus goes like this:

"When you're walking alone in the night, you might meet one of your kind. And for a moment that path is light to go together. Not the distance nor the years, nothing will separate us. When for a moment I can have you, and forget."

Alone in the Night | Tapas

[yagisa]

I like winging the titles of my stories most of the time, so a lot of them are pretty straightforward or based off of songs or entries in a dictionary. But with my current project, I actually put some thought into it.
It's called Peggy Sue and the Pretzel of Time and as the title implies, it really is about this person called Peggy Sue and of course, a pretzel who can bend time and space. I chose the name Peggy Sue because of the trope and because I thought it rolled nicely with the word pretzel.

Peggy Sue and The Pretzel of Time

[Kerberos]

I'm working on a story and it has had many names so far. I ended up dividing it in 4 main plots with different names each, but the main thing is still in a weird spot. Naming stories is difficult, I like to both have something with a deeper meaning behind it and a nice eye catching thing that will bring people into it!

[MariMontoya]

My title for The Prince and I just came to me one day some years ago and I liked it so much that it hadn't changed. There's this feeling that you get when you know that the title is the right one for your book lol.
I would like to keep the readers guessing on who exactly the title is referring to and it's not a straightforward answer as it seems.