Title drop.

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in the second chapter my lil fairy character starts a poem about the creation of the universe. and she ends it with her talking about how her god used to tell her the stories all the time and their grand creation was called well the book title.
 
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My book titles aren't namedropped because they're very technical terms and wouldn't really be used in conversation.

Sometimes, a chapter name might be name-dropped by a character, though.
 
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Bartun said:
Oh, I do it every time ?
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Garolymar said:
in the second chapter my lil fairy character starts a poem about the creation of the universe. and she ends it with her talking about how her god used to tell her the stories all the time and their grand creation was called well the book title.
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Cool! Poems are always great. :blobthumbsup:
Clo said:
My book titles aren't namedropped because they're very technical terms and wouldn't really be used in conversation.

Sometimes, a chapter name might be name-dropped by a character, though.
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Understandable.
 
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SailusGebel said:
To all my author homies out there, did you do a title drop in your story? How lond did it take you to do it? I am obviously asking authors who can do it with their titles.
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Oh... I kind of did it. I just couldn't help it by the chapter 200. It slipped out. Not the exact title but close enough to be unmistakable.
So... It took around 400k words, I guess.
 
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Enkiari said:
Oh... I kind of did it. I just couldn't help the chapter 200. It slipped out. Not the exact title but close enough to be unmistakable.
So... It took around 400k words, I guess.
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Took you some time. :blob_blank:
laccoff_mawning said:
I haven't had a good opportunity to. Contrary to the title's appearance, I don't think it would lend itself to a name drop easily either.
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It happens.
 
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I think it completely depends on the title and the type of novel. Like, my current uploading book is called "Severed Wings" which relates to an action in the book. One of the main characters is partly a phoenix and partly a human. Phoenixes are known to die and resurrect even stronger. So, merging together both phoenixes' regeneration abilities and being a human (not being immortal so she cannot kill herself), in theory if she injuries herself, she will gain new strength when she heals, so she severs and hacks at her wings a lot to strengthen her fire-based abilities. Despite all the thought put into it and it being the book name, it's not mentioned too much; it's really a tiny part of it and not even her biggest way of getting stronger.

Meanwhile, in my next upcoming planned book, it's called "A Husband is Meant to Treat His Husband." and it's a phrase that pops up every now and then. It's a fake marriage/fake relationship type of book where the love interest is getting divorced with his wife and planned a business trip with her involved already, so he needs someone to pretend to be married to him because he doesn't want to get into explaining he's getting divorced and be pitied and such, so the main character jumps in to be his "husband." The love interest is an absolute teasing flirt and makes this condescending comment of "oh, well a husband is supposed to treat his husband" to things, so in this kind of book, it's mentioned a quite a bit.

So, it depends where you grab your title from, I think. Is it a phrase, is it an action in the book, is it a metaphor of the book? There is no law that states your title of your book must be somewhere in the text. You're free to do whatever you wish! As the author, the choice will always be yours. It all boils down to personal preference.
 
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soupsabaw said:
I think it completely depends on the title and the type of novel. Like, my current uploading book is called "Severed Wings" which relates to an action in the book. One of the main characters is partly a phoenix and partly a human. Phoenixes are known to die and resurrect even stronger. So, merging together both phoenixes' regeneration abilities and being a human (not being immortal so she cannot kill herself), in theory if she injuries herself, she will gain new strength when she heals, so she severs and hacks at her wings a lot to strengthen her fire-based abilities. Despite all the thought put into it and it being the book name, it's not mentioned too much; it's really a tiny part of it and not even her biggest way of getting stronger.

Meanwhile, in my next upcoming planned book, it's called "A Husband is Meant to Treat His Husband." and it's a phrase that pops up every now and then. It's a fake marriage/fake relationship type of book where the love interest is getting divorced with his wife and planned a business trip with her involved already, so he needs someone to pretend to be married to him because he doesn't want to get into explaining he's getting divorced and be pitied and such, so the main character jumps in to be his "husband." The love interest is an absolute teasing flirt and makes this condescending comment of "oh, well a husband is supposed to treat his husband" to things, so in this kind of book, it's mentioned a quite a bit.

So, it depends where you grab your title from, I think. Is it a phrase, is it an action in the book, is it a metaphor of the book? There is no law that states your title of your book must be somewhere in the text. You're free to do whatever you wish! As the author, the choice will always be yours. It all boils down to personal preference.
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SailusGebel said:
To all my author homies out there, did you do a title drop in your story? How lond did it take you to do it? I am obviously asking authors who can do it with their titles.
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I understand. :blobsip:
 
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I did it for my Dao of Rhetoric anti-guide, but I didn’t for the stories themselves because it would be too out of context within them.
 
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