Friday, October 18, 2013

Book Titles

These blog posts are usually the result of something I'm exploring. It gives me a chance to improve. I say this so you will understand, because I can't come up with cool book titles. I stink at it! I have half a million stories and they all have dumb names. For instance…

The Trouble with Elves
Mistake
Clouded City (or maybe Vivas?)
Four Magic Kids (yup, that's seriously how I think of it)
Suncursed
Spy (short and to the point?)
Ilios

Some of are worse than others, but all are unsatisfactory.

So what makes a good title? Something that catches your attention, something that pertains to the story and characters…hopefully something that embodies the book.
Some examples?

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

College Problems: Finding Information for Citations

Now a college student writing essays, I have a formed a brief but heartfelt opinion about finding information for web citations.
If you have a web article someone might want to include in something sometime ever, you should put enough information on it for that someone to correctly and properly cite your article. This means (for MLA citation, at least) including the author, the title, the publisher, and the date of publication.
Thank you.