Didn't see this thread and thought I'd start it...

Mine's a long story :-D

the original original short story (which comprises the first meet-cute chapter of what became the book) was called "Before the Horse". Stupid, but it tied in with the end and made a pun so I went with it. This was back about 1994. It stayed buried in the morgue files till about 2002, when I brought it out again and started the first toying with expanding it into a novel. I got as far as figuring out the belief system and then put it aside again.

Then last year I had the idea of actually getting off my butt and work on it and I changed the title to If Wishes Were Horses, hereinafter referred to as IWWH. This was right before I found out about Nano and then decided to use Nano as my excuse to pound the thing out of my head, which I did! But it's still very rough.

During the rest of the winter between Nano and Screnzy I decided it needed to be a trilogy, and tentatively titled the second book If Pigs Could Fly. But that was just my in joke.

Then Screnzy came along. I had planned, before I found out about the comic script thing, to do a steampunk stageplay, but I wasn't all that thrilled with the prework that was going on. Then I thought maybe I would use the month to edit IWWH instead. Then the comic option came out and I'm sort of doing both; I'm using the graphic medium to fix some plot thingies so that when I go back and edit the novel, it'll be worked out already.

It was at this point I worked out the title I'm going with, since it encompasses what I really want to do with it and has nothing to do with horses or pigs (though the plot is kind of dependent on them). The new title is Carillon Quartet. It has the following three virtues: 1) it's fairly unique 2) it almost sounds like a manga anyway 3) it actually makes sense within the context of the book, obliquely referring to the last line of a prophesy: "...and the Four will come together when the sound of bells is heard."

And that's my long drawn out boring story.

How did you choose your title?

Mine are almost always referrential to the underlying theme of the story. In the first episode of the series I'm writing, the theme of the story is that God does not always choose his followers to do his will; that, sometimes, unbelievers are better suited for His purposes. There's an old saying that "God uses crooked sticks to draw straight lines" and that seemed to fit, hence the title "Crooked sticks."

For TV at least, it seems that everything is about feeling, character and theme. I hate titles that are too obvious and don't point back to the story in some fashion or another. But that's me.
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"This is the Way the World Ends"
S1E1: "Crooked Sticks"

How did I come up with my title? That's the problem, I haven't yet! I'm adapting a film, so right now I'm just using the movie's title, but hopefully I will eventually come up with something that fits my comic.
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"It's not that I'm a bad person. I just hate seeing anyone happier than me." -Jesse Fang, from my comic book adaptation of the film "Ashes of Time"

My title, the World at Small, is a play on the saying 'the world at large', and is the name of the main character's art studio.

I thought it was cute, even though the correct rewording would be like, 'Captive World' or something. lol!

For he who wants to fight, let him fight, for the time is now.

"Spanner" is Brit for "monkeywrench". Look it up in the dictionary, and you'll find it means "adjustable wrench" -- but also "that which spans". So there's a pun in there, befitting Shira's insanely paradoxical nature.

"Spanner" became Shira's handle as a tagger because she has a knack for (or is that nasty habit of?) monkeywrenching. Get her into a dangerous situation, and she'll interfere. I thought the new title was better than the original one I picked, "Fantoma" ("La Fantoma" is her online handle, but that's really a retcon), which I named in honor of Shira's scariest/most infuriating trait, her uncanny ability to hide in plain sight (another retcon: because of her training as a wilderness tracker/Apache scout -- she's part Apache, as she'll tell you straight up).

The whole thing about the title "Spanner", and the chapters on dialectical storytelling in Lajos Egri's The Art of Dramatic Writing, got me on the whole dialectical trip that's consumed my brain. I think it was F. Scott Fitzgerald who once wrote that the mark of genius is to believe two contradictory things and still remain sane...

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Script Frenzy 2008: Spanner
Project Blog: Spanner's World

My title is OtherWorld because there are two 'worlds' in my story, Oji's world nonreality) and Neo's world (reality). Once Neo goes into Oji's world, he begins to refer to it as the OtherWorld.

I actually came up with the charcter Oji first, and then the title. The title just kind of came to me. When I went to go put it on the paper, I wrote it really fast (I was at my Uncle's wedding), so that's why there isn't a space between Other and World xD
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SF 2008: OtherWorld

Ah! All of this sounds so cool! I want to read them...

For he who wants to fight, let him fight, for the time is now.

well for the manga I'm doing that is actually where the story was coming from.

My brother in law is not into anime so much, though he has found some that he can tolerate.

Myself and my little neice however enjoy them.

She was watching something on the TV while visiting and a commercial for Hi-Hi- Puffy -omi yummi came on. Or what ever the spelling is.

He made a wise crack "Yummi- boomy whaty?" Then just proceeded to string random umis together. When he Hit on Lumi, Glumi and Yumi" my mind caught that up. When I commented about it he made another crack about making a tv series based on it. Then I started to form characters around the names, a few months later a whole universe idea formed with the foundational idea for the first story.
Since then I know who the characters are, how they came to be how they are and the roll that plays in the setting of the universe.

All because my anime/japanese illiterate brother in law was goofing off.

my other catagories were titled in differant ways
Deep fried melon- I work with fruit in a kitchen that has a deep fryer, I'm creative, experimental and curious. It was bound to happen, the fact that part of the story takes place in that same type of setting and is mind bogglingly abstract and jumbled fits the pun well.

No mans land is sort of tacked on because, I have no idea what to call it. The premise being that a man causes political upheaval by showing he is not the same as modern man and that that fact changes to nature of barter and trade with extra terresrials who bargained for trade right of the indigenous cultures (without this mans 'people' being represented) and so the lands of the world are not just modern mans lands but also they are no mans land. It's a bit of a stretch but it also fits the up in the air feeling of the confusion that follows.

I rather like the title A myriad of faded lines. It suits my stage Noir well. The lines and fading metaphor are nice and they also imply the moral grey areas the story ideas fall into. A hallmark of many noir.

Urban bohemia is sort of slapped on too. I'm kind of on a bohemian life style kick right now and this story is so undefined other then it's a bunch of kids out of school and they are all artists and dreamers.

My title, "Kittenology", refers back to my original inspiration for the story. One night at work I was contemplating the differences between cats and dogs, specifically, how pet dogs follow their owners b/c they consider them the pack leader, but pet cats "follow" their humans (inasmuch as they follow anything) b/c they see us as their mother; in other words, they never grow out of kittenhood. Then I thought, "What if a human was kept and raised as a pet?" and I started to explore the possibilities. I think I'm getting away from the original concept a bit, though; I'm expecting a few "Where are the kittens?" emails when I start publishing it. (Can you call it publishing if you're just posting it online?)

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"A blank page is God's way of showing you how hard it is to be God." ~ Anonymous

My title came from a fault on my boiler, "Fault 49". The thing is, it doesn't exist, there is no fault 49 for my boiler. Had the engineer puzzled and gave me my title.

AG72

My title comes from a song by Heart, "These Dreams." Anyone remember it? "These dreams go on when I close my eyes. Every second of the night, I live another life."

Anyway, dreams figure prominently in my GN, specifically characters dreaming one another's dreams and trying to figure out why that's happening to them.

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Myriad

NaNoWriMo 2007: Won with Lobbied
Scriptfrenzy 2008: These Dreams (Graphic-Novel Script)