[JetSet]

I find that I usually deliberate over a title for a while, and then take the story from there. The title gives me my bearings, I suppose one could say.

This is probably a chicken or the egg type of question, but do you usually write the story and choose a title, or choose a title and then write the story from there, such as myself?
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[mychael_black]

Usually the story comes first for me. I actually suck at titles. LOL Although...I've had a few titles that just stuck with me: Blessed Sacrament (the sequel to my novel The Legacy, which comes out this fall) and one just popped into my head the other day that might be a fallen angel story: Descent.

But yeah, usually the story comes first.
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[wound666]

i write the story as soon as it comes to me or i'll lose it, so i don't usually bother with the title until i finish the story. i'm not very good at choosing titles anyway, hah.
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[ulysses]

I'm with everyone else, I do the story first. Seems like it would be harder to write when you start with the title. That's probably why your stories are so good, JetSet!
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[Taylor]

i do the titles first too, jetset.
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[bigboi]

I write the stories first, then the title. I don't think I could just come up with a title and make a story fit it. But I have never tried either. Besides, what I wrote is more like a pathetic diary.

[ulysses]

[joystick]

I start with a working title and idea. The title may change, but usuakky I keep it. Sometimes I have the story in mind and the title just comes later.

[Habu]

The unique idea, twist, or hook comes first for me (I try not to write essentially the same story over and over--although sometimes I'll rewrite a story), then the story, with the title usually forming while the story is being written.

[jakeknightley]

I have to say that for me the story comes first. Actually, the title is sometimes the hardest thing for me to come up with and I usually go through several before I settle on one.

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[Morrison]

I don't write all that often, but with what I have written I find it is either hard to come up with a title or it just seems to come to mind at the same time as the story. It is weird.

[ulysses]

For me, it is the title first. I don't know why, but somehow a good title is usually the starting point for the story at least for me anyways.
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[James Buchanan]

Once in a while a title comes and I have to write it. Mostly tho, the story comes first.
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