I thought The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe is about the lion and witch who are fashionistas.
Yup! In the movie version, I was disappointed to see that the articles of clothing inside the famous "wardrobe" are plain clothing nothing fancy inside.I think the story would make a lot more sense if it's actually that xD
I thought Ivanhoe was about Ivan acting like a hoe.
my apologies to everyone named Ivan.
When I first heard of Harry Potter, I thought he'd be making pots.
I also thought Romance of Three Kingdoms is a romance novel.
I think everyone thought so when they first heard the title.I thought so for three kingdomsI thought Ivanhoe was about Ivan acting like a hoe.
my apologies to everyone named Ivan.
When I first heard of Harry Potter, I thought he'd be making pots.
I also thought Romance of Three Kingdoms is a romance novel.
coincidentally I thought Food Wars! was a foreign localization of Hunger GamesI also thought Hunger Games is a gourmet novel
I will stand on the opposite side in this case.
I am strongly against simple titles that actually directly describe events inside the novel. The title "Romance of Three Kingdoms" instantly made ma sure that this absolutely can't be about romance. I would prefer to avoid going with the title into what Japanese are doing now and many novels are also getting into, where they decided that the readers are so lazy that they don't read synopsis anymore, and so they started putting description in the place of title, by creating all those long names.
I prefer instead the names that are cleaver or deep. It could be the name of something in the novel that shows up only later in the story or could be metaphor. There are also some universal titles like The chronicles of XXX or diary of YYY.
Readers are lazy but not stupid. Even if some might actually be stupid, there is no reason to think of all of our readers as some idiots. I definitely don't write for idiots and like to add some philosophical digressions in my novel. Some titles make me wonder about it's meaning even after I finished reading the whole thing, because it could be understood in more than one way. I like that.
I will stand on the opposite side in this case.
I am strongly against simple titles that actually directly describe events inside the novel. The title "Romance of Three Kingdoms" instantly made ma sure that this absolutely can't be about romance. I would prefer to avoid going with the title into what Japanese are doing now and many novels are also getting into, where they decided that the readers are so lazy that they don't read synopsis anymore, and so they started putting description in the place of title, by creating all those long names.
I prefer instead the names that are cleaver or deep. It could be the name of something in the novel that shows up only later in the story or could be metaphor. There are also some universal titles like The chronicles of XXX or diary of YYY.
Readers are lazy but not stupid. Even if some might actually be stupid, there is no reason to think of all of our readers as some idiots. I definitely don't write for idiots and like to add some philosophical digressions in my novel. Some titles make me wonder about it's meaning even after I finished reading the whole thing, because it could be understood in more than one way. I like that.
But it did work in some parts of the world ...It especially is off putting for me when I see ridiculously long titles like, "I got home and the door was open and there was three armed talking cat!".
It just looks too amateurish even for webnovels.
It especially is off putting for me when I see ridiculously long titles like, "I got home and the door was open and there was three armed talking cat!".
It just looks too amateurish even for webnovels.
But I mean, light novels are light novels? Such a title can set the mood and the expectations for the readers.I will stand on the opposite side in this case.
I am strongly against simple titles that actually directly describe events inside the novel. The title "Romance of Three Kingdoms" instantly made ma sure that this absolutely can't be about romance. I would prefer to avoid going with the title into what Japanese are doing now and many novels are also getting into, where they decided that the readers are so lazy that they don't read synopsis anymore, and so they started putting description in the place of title, by creating all those long names.
I prefer instead the names that are cleaver or deep. It could be the name of something in the novel that shows up only later in the story or could be metaphor. There are also some universal titles like The chronicles of XXX or diary of YYY.
Readers are lazy but not stupid. Even if some might actually be stupid, there is no reason to think of all of our readers as some idiots. I definitely don't write for idiots and like to add some philosophical digressions in my novel. Some titles make me wonder about it's meaning even after I finished reading the whole thing, because it could be understood in more than one way. I like that.