How Do You Title Your Literary Works?

Hello everyone! Well, social week is over, and it is now March As we prepare for some really exciting events next month, like National Poetry Writing Month (NaPo), we thought that it would be a good time to reflect on literary works and how they are titled. Vote in this poll and let us know how you come up with your titles for your poems, novels, short stories, songs, and other works! Also, if you have any tips or tricks for coming up with good titles, please comment them below. Thank you so much to @Wolfi for this month's poll idea!



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Luckily, my titles come quite easily to me. For my novel ideas, they come to me when I first come up with the concept. With poems, I typically choose a title afterwards that I feel either captures the essence of the poem or is a line/word from the poem!

If only I could choose ALL of them! The truth is, I either use some sort of metaphor or a quote from the piece, but I only get there after numerous showers, changes, and more than a few mysterious options >.>

I have a weird process wherein I do all of them sometimes it sticks and sometimes I just decide that I'll do the title at the end (and if it's a novel there's a non-existent chance I finish so it just remains nameless T-T)

My titling process is very odd. There are many different ways of titling I indulge in.
A. I write a one or two-word title based on the vibes
B. I write a one or two-word title that shows directly what/who I wrote it about/what it's based on.
C. The title is a line that I add that makes it all make sense.
D. The title is a repeated word.
E. The title is the last or first word of the poem.
F. The title is what seems like the most important word in the poem.
F. Yes, sometimes the title is a quote.

I usually choose a single word that fits the overarching theme ~~ Like, a poem about motherhood being titled "matriarch" or "umbilical" / sometimes I pick the title before and write a poem with that word in mind.

I take the overall metaphor for the poem and then make it a whole sentence that requires commas and/or parenthesis. My inspo is old Fall Out Boy titles

I like to make my titles Silly. This is because I can't take myself seriously.

When something comes into my mind, usually a phrase or a few short words, I use that as motivation an inspiration on my flash fiction or short stories... It's also the only thing that keeps me on track with my topics lol

Titles are one thing I honestly don’t think I’ve ever struggled with. I could swear most of my best ideas come to me with titles preattached. Sure some have made me happier than others, but I’ve never been at a loss that I can remember