Wriging

I spend a considerable amount of time writing titles. I could probably put that time to better use, but many times I write titles and little phrases within posts for the 1% that will "get it". To most people it's just a title or sentence like on any other blog, but to that 1% it's a nice little surprise (or at least I like to think so).

If the subject matter is about getting a parking ticket, I wouldn't title it "I got a parking ticket" because that's boring.

Yeah with my personal blog I try to make some kind of creative title, that might not be too obvious at first, but after reading it, it makes alot more sense.

Some of mine are song titles. Hahaha....

I honestly am the worst at this. Sometimes I get it and sometimes I don't. Most of the time I just don't think about it and come up with something lame.

Song quotes, all the way. I tried to quit once, and my sister complained.

If it's not a song quote, it's not a personal post.

When I was in college, I used to give my English essays the title of the text I was writing about. So, an essay on King Lear would be called .... "King Lear." After a few of these, a professor wrote this on the top of my latest opus: "The better part of literary valor is a good title." Other people obviously came to creative titling soooner than I -- my favorite title for an English paper was a boyfriend's title for a paper on Donne. You can probably see it coming: "What's Done is Donne." Groan. He became a lawyer.

Titles can be puns, they can be quotes from something relevant (song titles are fun Avuee!), they can be plays on phrases -- they're hooks of a sort, and it can be a lot of fun to work on them. A good title is like the chocolate you leave on a pillow to welcome someone to the room. It's a good idea to give them some thought.

Sometimes though, I think, "eh, I'll just call it BlogLily Post No. 237."

In all honesty, they just seem to come to me. On occasion my girlfriend will suggest a title for something I've written, but mostly the titles make themselves evident.

Mine are rather pedestrian.

Brand of Meal Name of Meal

What's difficult is coming up with yet another way to describe the texture of Lean Cuisine's chicken.

My SEO background encourages me to use keywords that are relevant to my post. I try to be creative within that space.

I'm rather proud of the titles I come up with, and truth be told, a lot like most creative things I do, they just pop up when needed, no real trick to it.

Mine are often random, sometimes quotes sometimes quotes I disturb to a degree. Sometimes my titles make no sense unless people have been reading me since the beginning because a lot of what I write relates to things from the past.

I was not aware of the concept of key words until I started reading nine rules at least for the most part I wasn't aware of it. I had titles which causes an abnormal number of hits at times and was aware of that I guess I just didn't know the terminology.

I used to drive myself nuts thinking of titles, until I decided that all of my titles must contain the word "Creampuff". There's only so much you can do when you have to include "Creampuff".

I use different methods for different kinds of posts. Lots of my posts are highly technical explanations of how to do things. For those, I come up with a list of the terms *I* would use to search for an article like that and turn that list into a title. These are not imaginative, but the people who are looking for the information end up finding it, which is the purpose. You don't click on a post entitled "SSHFS on Windows via Samba Shares on Ubuntu VMWare" unless most of those terms light up something in your brain as matching exactly what you're looking for.

For articles that are more "musings" or "rants" and less objectively informative, I take much more liberty and do some free association and usually end up with something. For instance, I recently wrote a post on the fact that it's cold enough for sun dogs to be visible here in Minnesota and how the cold shapes the identities of people here. Given the sun dog mention, I though about dogs and ended up entitling the post "Sun Dogs on the Prowl".

No one's likely to find it if they're just looking for an article on the cold, but that wasn't its purpose.

Normally I write my post first. Then I take a thought or phrase from the last sentence and make that my title. That way the posts feel like they begin and end with the same topic.

I generally write my post right at the start to capture attention. It is usually a little bit about what has impressed me the most in the episode (since I do a bit of episode impressions in my anime), make a crazy pun of words in it (for parodies) or simply parody some famous books' title and make it my own twist (for commentaries/editorials).

Usually, I turn all crazy with it. :P

Mine are a blend of thinking off the top of my head, song lyrics, a quote from the TV - anything that seems remotely connected in my head. If it's a main post I try and make it fairly obvious. For my Sunday Roast's I indulge my taste for arcane TV trivia and quotes.

The skill of naming posts is a tricky one, and I don't think I've quite cracked it yet!

You all have such awesome blogs....really I'm so impressed reading all of them....the designs are wonderful and unique....(just thought i'd share)

"I just sit down and start hitting at the keys...getting them in the right order though, that's the trick-"

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