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Nine Ways To Name Your First Novel

amandaonwriting:

This is just for fun

1. If Your First Novel Will Be A Harrowing Historical Account
The [A COLOR] [REPEAT THAT COLOR] [A FLOWER]s Of [A CITY IN EUROPE]

2. If Your First Novel Will Be A Withering Teenage Quasi-Memoir
How I Flunked [YOUR WORST ACADEMIC SUBJECT] But Passed [THE FIRST MUSICIAN YOU SAW IN CONCERT]

3. If Your First Novel Will Be A Workplace Satire
At Least They Left Us The [A PIECE OF OFFICE MACHINERY]

4. If Your First Novel Will Be A Quirky Woman’s Story From Someone Else’s Point Of View
[A CHILD-CARE-RELATED TRANSITIVE VERB]ing [THE NAME OF YOUR PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER]

5. If Your First Novel Will Be A Quirky Man’s Story From His Own Point Of View
[THE FIRST NAME OF YOUR MATERNAL GRANDFATHER] Reads The Works Of [CLASSIC AUTHOR]

6. If Your First Novel Will Be A Miserable Story Of One Person’s Suffering
My [A FRAGILE OBJECT] Is [A WORD THAT MEANS “BROKEN”]

7. If Your First Novel Will Be Self-Consciously Ironic And Self-Congratulatory
[A COMIC-BOOK SOUND EFFECT WORD] Goes [A NEIGHBORHOOD IN BROOKLYN]

8. If Your First Novel Takes Place In Gorgeous Locations
The [ANY COUNTRY] [ANY COMMON SOCIAL EVENT] Chronicles

9. If Your First Novel Is Intended To Launch A Giant Moneymaking Franchise
Everything Starts With [“1” OR “A”]