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Here's an interesting concept which will possibly inspire other Authors.
Think up a Title!
(You say, "What the $%#%$ are you going on about Holly?)
Okay, here's the concept:
It's sort of like reverse engineering.
I drop a title, and you think up what the story should be about.
(Believe it or not, I've actually started some of my own stories this way.)
A couple first titles:
1) Miss Treated
2) Hypersexed
3) Banana Anna
4) Basquing
Now, I know I can craft a story around each and every one of the titles.
Does anyone else want to give it a shot?
Holly
Huh?
Is that "tittle" or "title"? A "title" is the name of a story, I have no clue what a "tittle" is.
Inquiring minds want to know! :)
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"Girls are like pianos, when they're not upright they're grand!" Benny Hill
Karen J.
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
Tittle
A tittle is a small mark in writing, like the dot on an i or the crossbar of a t. Diacritics and punctuation are also sometimes considered tittles. A jot is another word for a small mark of writing but a jot is a whole letter, perhaps needing only a tittle. There's a verse in the Bible that refers to jots and tittles.
I think Wholeman meant a title. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Karen, according to Encarta, using MSWord 2007's "research* tab
tittle is a noun, prounced tit.tle, [titt'l]
1. tiny bit
a tiny bit of something.
2. mark used in printing
a small mark used in printing and writing, e.g. an accent, punctuation mark, or diacritical mark.
Or my guess... a typo of title.
-- GRIN --
John in Wauawtosa
P.S. WOW! Great minds think alike, Erin.
John in Wauwatosa
Well, John . . .
I suppose, as you are the expert on little bits (or so I'm told) that I won't argue with you about it! Besides, you read it on the Internet so it must be true, right? LOL!
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"Girls are like pianos, when they're not upright they're grand!" Benny Hill
Karen J.
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
If I had wanted to be totally authorative...
I would have looked it up in Wikipedia.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
Tit Tittle Titilate Titmouse Titleist
I think I have tits on the brain.
These are my very own definitions pulled from my very own memories and thoughts.
Tit = small breast
Tittle = a small amount
Titilate = to pique interest or stimulate a little
Titmouse = a small bird
Titleist = the burden of having a pair of HUGE-GIGANTIC-ENORMOUS breasts attached to one's chest (Leist is German for burden)
with love,
Hope
Once in a while I bare my soul, more often my soles bear me.
Titleist?
That's a brand of golfing equipment!
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"Girls are like pianos, when they're not upright they're grand!" Benny Hill
Karen J.
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
I - LOVE - it when a joke works and someone gets reeled in
HOOK, LINE, and SINKER!!!!!
Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee
Hope
with love,
Hope
Once in a while I bare my soul, more often my soles bear me.
you're wrong about tittles
I always thoughts tittles were the breast of a developing girl. I'm a D-cup but when I was younger I had tittles.
K.T. Leone
My fiction feels more real than reality
Katie Leone (Katie-Leone.com)
Writing is what you do when you put pen to paper, being an author is what you do when you bring words to life
We always called them . . .
Booblets! The bearers of such are members of the IBTC.
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"Girls are like pianos, when they're not upright they're grand!" Benny Hill
Karen J.
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
IBTC?
International Brotherhood of Tele.....
OH, you meant the Iitty Bitty ....
Oh MY!
John in Wauwatosa.
P.S. Here's a few titles awaiting a story.
I was a Teenage Teenager -- A sort of ultimate horror story
Harry Potter and the Great Big Piles of Royalties -- a REAL story
Or these two for you, Wholeman and your, um, *preferences* in writing.
America's Dairyland or How to Make the Breast(s) of a Bad Situation ... sort of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde meets Erin Brockavich.
The Mommy -- Egyptologist discovers what he thinks is a lost tomb of a pharaoh but is actually the tomb of a high priestess of Isis and triggers a powerful curse or a boon depending on your point of view . A curse of goddess-like fertility, attractiveness, fitness, youth, desire but which changes all who make love to her into her priestesses who also share the curse. IE the price, the curse, is the loss of one's male essence. Not so bad if you are already female or TG but a guy? And the bigger the *offering* the greater the *blessing*. And did I say our Egyptologist was a real manly man? Oh and as the first transformee, the High Priestess, she is at the top of this magical pyramid scheme. IE the more they convert to the priestesshood the more *blessings* she receives and lesser so down the hierarchy of the *religion*.
--- grin --
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
A little fleshing out of that 'The Mommy' synopsis and
Hey John,
You'd have a full-fledged story there.
with love,
Hope
with love,
Hope
Once in a while I bare my soul, more often my soles bear me.
Inspiration
Inspiration can come from anywhere.
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
Tittle
I was taught that a 'tittle' was a backward 'S' lying on its side.
Upper left on your keyboard... just to the left of the number one key.
Zip
Re: Tittle
Surely, that's a 'tilde' not a 'tittle', isn't it?
Regards,
Dave.
Not bad Zip - I see you caught one too
~ is a tilde and it seems Amrad/Dave took Zip's bait and ran with it.
with love,
Hope
Once in a while I bare my soul, more often my soles bear me.
Disappointment
It is very revealing that, those who cannot create, seem to critique?
Apparently, there are very few people who are creative.
I'm sorry to have evoked the spelling Nazis.
Please, return to your nits and forget that you had an opportunity.
Goodbye.
Yes, the weird author with the boob fetish.
Yes, the weird author with the boob fetish.
Missunderstanding?
Did you want us to tell you a title, so you can develope a story around it?
If that was your attention, that wasn't really obvious in your starting post.
To tell you a title... The philosopher and the god.
Truth to be told, I'm kind of wary of those stories with a super powerful entity that behaves as if it is moraly superior and nobody ever challenges their moral reasoning.
That doesn't have to be evil, or forced femme or anything but in the end the "god" has to overthink its reasoning.
Hope I could help.
Beyogi
Well, my story Morgan,
Well, my story Morgan, recently posted had a rude working title that got changed to "The Boy With Something Extra". But I didn't use that title here, because it gave away the game a bit too soon.
Brooke brooke at shadowgard dot com
http://brooke.shadowgard.com/
Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world
"Lola", the Kinks
hah. stupid obvious working/planning titles!
I use them too! And sometimes I keep them! But the first story I've ever not named something stupid at first was Open Your Heart, I never wrote anything down or saved anything to computer before I started typing Chapter 1, so it never needed one.
The Science Fiction story I have on the backburner presently has all the planning documents related to it saved in a directory on my computer titled "gender-bender story" ... yeah, real inventive there! I still don't know what it's title will be, but I'm sure I'll figure a good one out before I start writing it seriously.
I once wrote an apocalyptic story and it's post-apocalyptic sequel, and their working title was simply "Ceasing Planet" ... I later thought it'd be fun to go ahead and keep that as a subtitle, and so they were called "Searth: The Ceasing Planet" and "Searth: The Ceasing Planet ][". They were good fun, sadly, I've lost the original to a combination of fire and virus. A house-fire destroyed the printed copy, the digital one was destroyed by a computer virus. I still have ][ though! I think they were novella length, maybe a longish short story. They're really not appropriate to this site though, the religious overtones are extremely heavy. Not really appropriate to anyone not a member of my religion, tbh.
Abigail Drew.
working titles
I have a large sheet of paper with working titles on them. The titles are the synopsis of the stories, so they have to be pretty plain, or I might forget what the story was supposed to be about by the time I actually write it. Most of the time, I end up keeping the working title or a variation of it when I publish the story.
Dorothycolleen
Banana Anna
Well... A shemale plant human. He is a space scout and had an accident and dropped on a strange planet. When he was about to starve, he ate a strange fruit. Problem was the fruit ate him too. The planet has a collective individualistic hive mind and doesn't accepts outsiders. Thus it assimilated him. S/he is connected to the planet mind know. Every individual on the planet has both sexual organs so they can combine freely. About every individual is its own species. They can all crossbreed. The more intelligent species tend to stay among themselves though. They don't want to produce offspring that is way more stupid than themselves - it would be rather cruel.
S/he falls in love with a tentacle monster with a beautiful soul. Then some strangers land on the planet and try to mine its resources. They're protected by environments suits and thus the planet can't easily assimilate them. So its more intelligent inhabitens need to find a way to either repell or assimilate the strangers.
Lol, my creativity just sparked :D
If you want to you can use it ;) plz ^^
Banana Anna
Beyogi,
That sounds remarkably similar to Avatar... ^^
Although there is enough different that it could be fleshed out to an interesting bit.
BTW... is this 'Space Scout' working on his Phoenix Scout Merit? (Had to upgrade from Eagle Scout... which should also make him of legal age.)
Does she have an overpowering need for full... and fill meant? roflmao
It would be fun to see how you flesh this out and make it your own. (Unfortunately, Wholeman don't do she-male.)
Wholeman
Yes, the weird author with the boob fetish.
Yes, the weird author with the boob fetish.
Well it's number three in my
Well it's number three in my pipeline ^^
I'm thinking about them transfering their mind into their children and thus changing their form every time they procreate...
That would only satisfy my morphophilia though ^^
It'll definitly be fun to write this... I have to write a plot first, because I don't want to let it deteriorate into nothing but porno.
I actually didn't think about avatar when writing this, but I guess it was heavily influenced *blush*
Maybe they had bad expierence with a borg like lifeform and now want to destroy every collective conciousness in the universe. That way I wouldn't need to use the ressource plot device which I also use in another SF story I'm writing.
Thank you for your thoughts,
Beyogi