If any of my story title ideas are the same as that of an existing story title, it is purely by coincidence that this has happened. Lorrie Moore, 16.
The Radiance of Pigs, Stan Rice
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14. Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? Broken Car Windscreen Equals Windswept Hair Towaway’s Midnight Shift Goes Wrong
12. Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury What Was That In The Road? 11.
The Beep Of the Metal Detector, The Plastic Cup in the Road The Metal In My Shoulder Set The Metal Detector Off I doubt that I am going to use any of these story title ideas myself, so please feel free to use them – BUT perhaps twist these story titles a little, or think of a related story title, so that your own story titles are more unique – you don’t really want 10 or more people writing stories that all have the same title that your story has.
I Just Wanted My Coffee
Working titles are often changed in the end anyway, but I’d still like to have a good one. Miraculously Escaping Cuts
I’m fond of one-word titles that have multiple meanings (maybe as both a noun and verb, for example). The Unlikely Accident The Day I Drove Over It Running Through Closed Windows Cut Hand Sewn Up
The Dehydrated Creature, That Creature Is Me It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It, Robert Fulghum There Was a Thump Sound The Stitched and The Soon To Be Stitched
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Random fact: Stan Rice (deceased) was Anne Rice’s husband. Titles are fun tools, and I wish more writers used them to their full advantage.
Signs of Life Right Here Story Title Ideas – List of 100 Story Title Ideas, 40 Suggested Titles for Scary Short Stories, My Writing Challenge Response – He Opened the Door and He Screamed, Beachcombing – 12 Ways to Make Money from Beachcombing, Christmas Markets December 2018 – in or near East London in South Africa.
Towaway’s Close Encounter With a Stitched Up Creature Read 2 from the story Deep Story Titles / Deep Quotes by Pinkkk_Babyyy ( ) with 1,604 reads. Is an Osteochondroma a kind of Bone Cancer?
romantictitles, clichétitles, helpbook. In an attempt to unblock my title impasse, I decided to make a list of all of my favorite book titles. The Broken Shop Window They Were Lying Next to The Broken Glass Window, Got My Keys But Cut My Hand 10 #8: Going Goth (I.e.
The Thing Beneath the Rags 10 #10: I Do IT Because IT’s Scary, The A.N. 13.
Signs of Life in the Distance
I Think You Should Come Home Now Broken Windscreen and Glass in Hair Labeling is effective for essays and sometimes novels (to a lesser degree), but for short, creative pieces, I like to take advantage of that extra line to do something special to the piece. The Lives of the Heart, Jane Hirshfield, 18. The Throbbing Pain in My Shoulder
You Need To Go To the Hospital Right Away It Was Gone When I Looked Back The Missing Transport System And if it’s really good, it might stick around all the way to the end.
Thoughts on IT by Stephen King, What it Takes to Enjoy Horror, and Why I Write It, Why I’m Tired of People Ragging on Twilight, The Differences Between Commercial and Literary Fiction, 2019 in Review (My Awards Eligibility List), The A.N. It Was All I Could Think Of Oh My Word You Poor Thing 20. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys Do You Serve Coffee At This Hospital? My Hands Were Shaking This novel ends with the crying of lot number 49. Always love you Assessing Analyzing Admitting Accepting Blood on the Steering Wheel
The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon 25.
I Do Not Know What It Was
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Required fields are marked *, Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. The Contents of The Cup This is a phrase from Robert Burns’s poem “To a Mouse,” which reads: “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley.” (The best laid schemes of mice and men / Often go awry.).
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Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov Would It Get Out of The Way? Read 3 from the story Deep Story Titles / Deep Quotes by Pinkkk_Babyyy ( ) with 1,564 reads.
It affects the way I think of the book as I’m writing it. story title ideas for all sorts of stories, 99 To Go What are some of your favorite book titles? Apologies to any author who may possibly have a same title for any of their own stories or books.
The Shops Were Closed Disclaimer:
I Will See You when I See You, Metal Removed The author of the collection, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, which was also a clever title until everyone beat it to death. Shoulder Sewn Up 10 #9: 2Spooky, the Rhyming Edition, The A.N.
Back In The Car This book isn’t actually out yet, but I had to include it.
Where That Ringing Was Coming From
Nobody Else on the Road Towaway’s Midnight Shift Back To The Shops
titles, love, wattys2018. 40 Suggested Titles for Scary Short Stories. Leaving the Safety of a Car Water Just Won’t Do Something beautiful. What can I say?
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck Discharged From Hospital
Something sharp. Please Keep Still, The Missing Phone Reaching For The Cup
It hasn’t helped yet, but it sure was fun.
Titles are very important to me. I have used only my imagination to come up with the story title ideas in my list.
That Post that Peaked after Crimson Peak).
‘Salem’s Lot, Stephen King Looking All About =) Here they are, in no particular order, with a few notes of my own: 1. deep, titles, love. They just really grab my attention and then stick with me. Does This Happen to All Coffee Drinkers? *Exactly Where They’d Fall, Laura Rae Amos
Still Nothing To Drink 21.
50 Ideas for Scary Short Story Titles When I Ran Out of Coffee I doubt that I am going to use any of these story title ideas myself, so please feel free to use them – BUT perhaps twist these story titles a little, or think of a related story title, so that your own story titles are more unique – you don’t really want 10 or more people writing stories that all have the same title that your story … Then I Could Not Find My Car Keys Made It Worse with a Dirty Tissue Where On Earth Are You?
Alarms and Sirens Do They Have Coffee?
As you can see, for novels and book-length works I tend to lean toward long, phrasal, and poetic titles. This is a phrase from Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens: “The moon’s an arrant thief, / And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.”. A Lump On The Road Hope you enjoyed the story! Pieces of Glass All Over The Dead-Tossed Waves, Carrie Ryan It Was Moving, Towards Me Shoes Crunching on Bits of Broken Glass
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Frustrating Cries On The Deserted Road I also like it when a poem is about something without ever telling you what it is, but then the title does. Auction items are called “lots.” The auctioneer is said to “cry” a lot when he takes bids on it. The Sargasso Sea is a region in the middle of the North Atlantic where several major ocean currents deposit their debris.
Unable To Go Home This title is actually why I first picked up the book. I Am Fine Thank You Go Back to Bed You may have noticed that these titles not only form a list of 100 story title ideas, but that they also form the words of a single story.
It is Difficult Being a Coffee Drinker
Caught Sight of Myself in the Mirror titles, wattys2018, love.
When The Phone Rang Again 2. Getting a Closer Look *Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul, Douglas Adams, 19. Read 1 from the story Deep Story Titles / Deep Quotes by Pinkkk_Babyyy ( ) with 1,912 reads. One more time Knowing Nobody Who Could Help
Best Be Getting On Home Then, Going Back The Same Way The Thing Itself Did Not Make a Sound The Window is Broken and The Cops Are Here So many times it seems like a quick afterthought.
Not to mention that they whisper, “The writing inside is just as good.”.
Fast Forward Through The Closed Driveway Gate A Bleeding Hand Peeped Out The Car Could Still Go so I Drove On, When Did It Get Dark?
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-Untold Secrets -Average I want a title like that for my new WIP (work in progress). Still a Way To Go to the Shops About TANT – Terry and Tony in South Africa.
Originally titled Second Coming, but later changed to Jerusalem’s Lot, and finally shortened to its final version to avoid sounding “too religious.”.
*No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy. Your email address will not be published. 100 story title ideas done and dusted! If the title doesn’t seem perfect, I’m dissatisfied – including my own titles.
I’ve been trying to figure out what to use as a working title for my new horror manuscript, and I keep drawing blanks. Something dark. Maybe you can help me get new ideas. Although you may use these story title ideas, or a version of them, the content above and below the list, in its entirety, and the list on this page, in its entirety, is copyright to myself, Teresa Schultz – © Copyright Teresa Schultz 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, Your email address will not be published. Obstruction In The Road 10. Part of Metal Gate in Shoulder
Loose Shoelace Caught on the Gas Pedal
For poems and stories, I like it when the title adds something to the piece itself rather than labeling.
But it’s not as dull as it sounds, it ties into the plot, which is not about auctions at all.
8. Where the Thing Went Thump This is a phrase from Shakespeare’s Macbeth: “By the pricking of my thumbs / Something wicked this way comes.”, 3. Even if I wasn’t online friends with the author, I would buy it for its title alone. She’s good at titles.
6. Read Part 9-Deep from the story Story Titles and Tips by talesofthysoul with 15,781 reads. Forgetting and Moving On, Finally At The Shops
The Reluctant Patient
Desperate Race to Get to The Shops I Will Be Home In a Minute Darling, You may also like:
A Ring of Endless Light, Madeleine L’Engle.
If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Approaching The Place The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Carrie Ryan This is a literary “prequel” to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. The Sky is Everywhere, Jandy Nelson Out Looking For Coffee Sargassum is a type of floating seaweed. *Where the Sea Breaks Its Back, Corey Ford, 5. © Annie Neugebauer Tilton. Not a Star in Sight 24. Look Both Ways When You Cross The Street
I must say, this book is even more beautiful than the title – a rare find.