If this generates a title of a book or short story already in existence, I assure you, it was completely random. If it generates a title you’d like to use, go right ahead! A word of thanks to those people who have created Javascript tutorials or put sample scripts up for people like me to see and learn from. (NOTE: There are a lot of words in this, some adult in nature. Just words, folks!)
I came across this Random Title Generator during my net travels, (yes, I was Stumbling again!) and it made me laugh. Pretty much all you do is press the button and it gives you six story titles. I suck big time at titles, I think they are the hardest part of writing, so this probably comes up with better titles than I do a good part of the time * g *. I probably wouldn’t use this for titles, however, as a story idea prompt it works great - it comes up with some wonderful combinations. I copied the code, per Maygra’s request to save bandwidth, to my site and you can play with it below. I might edit it later and add other words just for fun.
Let me know what the best title it came up with for you was!
on my latest cruising through the newstand writing magazines.
I’m actually thinking about subscribing to Writers’ Journal, as I have been finding useful articles in it each time I check it out. In this issue there were again several I marked, although I think I will paper clip this issue unlike the last one. This time there were major articles including a short clip on ideas to keep marketing your book after the glow has faded, a great article on proactive promotion and press kits, and tips for reducing word counts. There were also secondary articles on photographing flowers, self-publishing and formatting your work for Lulu, a screen writing article about starting your story in the right place, another article in the series of designing a writer’s webpage. Again, the marketing articles caught my eye, but the backup articles made it worth while.
The other magazine that I felt had enough articles to make it worth buying was this month’s The Writer. “The do’s and don’t of Agent Queries” was really good, as was “14 mistakes to avoid as your next writers Conference.” The conference article was something that I hadn’t really thought about before, but the tips were soooo good. The two secondary articles were on money and taxes, and an article from Ray Bradbury.
Some of these are things I probably could have found online, but with topics like these, sometimes knowing what to look for is the hardest part, and that’s why I find checking out these magazines worth-while.
