[HPforGrownups] Working Titles (Slightly OT: Was Book 5 title)

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 4251



Ben Leigh wrote:

> HI all
>
> I'm not impressed with the title! I have a feeling that's the "working" title like Doomspell tournement was. I think JK will change the title
>

Working titles can be an opportunity for a lot of fun for a writer.  I've mentioned working in a writing group with Patricia C. Wrede.  The
working title for one of her Magic Forest books which we critiqued was _Bowling for Dragons_

Pat always said you can get an idea of an author's progress on whatever she's working on at the moment by asking her what she's calling it right
now.  The progress, Pat says, goes:

The Book
The Stupid Book
The Damn Book
The G_damn Book
The F_ing Book
The M_f_ing Book
The M_f_ing Book from hell. . .

You get the idea.  It goes on from there.  I've used many of these "working book titles" myself about my own fiction.

Cheers,
Peg

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Sola plura verba hic liber requiret

(That's my own personal Latin motto, which I use when I'm in the middle of a novel.  It means "The only thing this book needs is more words.")