It actually made me so antsy to wait for the letter ‘T’ to come up that I wrote this post a whole three days in advance. Because I need help.
Not mental help. Well, okay, that too, but I’ll pay a professional for that. Or give you a candy bar. Your choice 😉
I need help coming up with a title for my new WIP. I don’t know if I’ll keep the title through the whole project, but whenever I name a project something like ‘New Story of the Month’ I never remember three months down the line which month it was a new story for.
So I have to give it a name to make it easier to work with. I hate coming up with titles, so I thought I’d ask y’all what you thought.
Here’s some basic info:
Genre: Adult Contemporary Romance
Blurb: (I’m still working on this, I only just wrote it up to give a basic story idea)
Just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. A painful, no-strings-attached fling taught Riley the only worthwhile guys are those willing to make a long-term commitment.
Nice guys finish last. After finding out his long-term girlfriend had been sleeping with the office-supply guy at work for over a year, Zane has sworn off serious relationships forever.
The mutual need to split the rent has landed them in the same apartment. Amid a series of one-night stands and aggressive dates with other people, and the unintentional half-clothed encounters that come from sharing a place, they realize their relationship goals couldn’t be more different. If they can’t curb their egos and reconcile conflicting notions about a ‘perfect’ romance before their lease is up, they’ll end up heart broken and miserable.
So…what do I call it? Be serious, be sarcastic, be whatever comes to mind. But as a word of advice, I’ve recently learned that more than 90% of the books on Amazon with ‘Roommate’ in the title are erotic romance…and since I can’t keep up that level of tension through an entire story, that’s not the feeilng I’m going for.
During the entire month of April, I’m participating in the A to Z Blogging Challenge. The alphabet will be my motivation, though the content of the posts will be very similar to what regular readers are used to. Check out the link for more amazing bloggers, and enjoy April!
Why not call it “The Perfect Romance”? Based on your blurb, it seems like it would fit pretty well…
“Destination Love”.
Since the whole idea seems to be forcing them to have the strings without the romance (at first) why not just call it “strings” or “strings attached”
Hmm, I suck at titles but I’ll give it a shot. How about just… “Fling”? Nice and to the point. 🙂
Alas, “The Apartment” is already an (excellent) movie with Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine.
How about “New Lease on Love”?
Ooh! Breanna’s suggestion of “New Lease on Love” sounds promising. There’s “Love Dues” (like rent is due). “Rent” is already the name of a Broadway Music unfortunately so that might not be an option (although I think titles aren’t protected under copyright law because they are easy to duplicate unintentionally). “Leasing Love” could be one too. Instead of “roommate” you could use the word “tenant”
I hope that helps you out. Good luck on the rest of your A to Z Challenge posts!
Sarah @ The Writer’s Experiment
Good luck. Titles vex me but I’ve done enough posts decided to write something else for T this time. I still need a title for Thomas/Kyle but I’ll find something eventually but I know what you mean. It helps to have something to call the story.