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Oh, our kangaroos are far superior. Heck, they can kick and punch people! Really! IDK about NZ's sheep navy though - they outnumber everyone's army's put together! =P

And if world peace ever happens, hence killing off a need for an army... we can always eat them! =D
 
We need a bold topic. XD

At what point do you give your chapters a title? How do you usually choose a title?
I'll almost always title my chapters before writing the chapter. As for how I do it, usually my chapters consist of a collection of scenes, each bounded loosely by a common theme, and that theme will be the title of the chapter.
 
Hell, we have 40 million sheep for 4 million people. Like, 80% of us are city-dwellers, so that leaves the remaining 800,000 people with *calculates* 50 sheep each. What's to do?

Anyway, I title my chapters randomly. Usually just before I post them =D

And Jax, that video is pure win.
 
Don't forget that at least half of those 800000 rural-dwellers are children, so that number moves to about 100 sheep each. XD
 
At what point do you give your chapters a title? How do you usually choose a title?

I generally avoid giving my chapters titles because I fail epically at titles of any kind. I have a few fics which have titled chapters, but not all that many.
(I go away for a few days and we're on conversations about kangaroos procreating? Wow!)
 
At what point do you give your chapters a title? How do you usually choose a title?

If I know exactly where the chapter is going, I usually name it first. Half of the chapters named like this get a rename after I finish the chapter, and about half of all chapters get renamed when I'm posting them on a different site. Yes, that's how bad I am with titles. [sighs]
 
At what point do you give your chapters a title? How do you usually choose a title?
Currently, I've already named all my chapters since I plan ahead a lot. I usually choose a title randomly, something that vaguely describes what's going on in the chapter.
 
Sparkling Dragon said:
And Jax, that video is pure win.
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Thanks kindly, although the video has been on the internets since forever. It brings back memories to my middle school days. You know, back when Newgrounds and Albinoblacksheep were actually visited by everyone and their mothers.

Citrinin said:
We need a bold topic. XD
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Indeed we do.

At what point do you give your chapters a title? How do you usually choose a title?
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I often do it after I finish a chapter, and the trend lately has been that I do it after I get it back from my beta and/or just as I'm about to post it. Usually, I take whatever seems to describe the chapter content the most, but both AEM and MKD currently have themes in addition to that.

For MKD, I choose one or two words that not only relate to the chapter content but also are terms in either literature or theater. For example, the first chapter is Soliloquy, obviously a stage term. There's also Antagonist, Backdrop, and Boom. Pretty simple and straightforward.

AEM does things slightly differently. Once again, I scour chapters for the main idea and then try to summarize it in the title, but for AEM, I try to make a sentence out of it. Sometimes, these sentence-titles end up being something I completely pull out of my rear ("I'll bring down the stars for you"), but other times, I pull lines from songs ("Helter-skelter, birds flew off with the fallout shelter," from the song "American Pie"), books ("Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams," the paraphrased first line of Kafka's Metamorphosis), or poems ("The affable Archangel had forewarned Adam to beware," from Paradise Lost). I'm also planning on using a few titles that are quotes from people or other fictional characters, but we'll see. In any case, some of these quotes (but not all) tend to be modified slightly to fit. Yes, I'm making a game out of trying to get the audience to figure out where each title comes from. Just in case you're ever bored trying to figure out what's also an allusion in this story.
 
At what point do you give your chapters a title? How do you usually choose a title?
NE I actually already planned out the chapter titles before I wrote the story because I had a theme in mind. The story was originally going to be sixteen chapters, so I had each chapter named after the plates (Sky, Insect, Spooky, Mind etc.). However, the story became longer than I have planned, so I then decided to change the titles, but not until after I finished editing the chapter. The new chapter titles are basically what happened in each chapter. One trivia fact, though--I kept two of the plate title chapters actually ("Zap, and you're safe" and "Sky High Battle"). XD
 
At what point do you give your chapters a title? How do you usually choose a title?
I don't title my chapters, actually. Heck, all of my one-shots don't have titles except for the prompts they're based on. (For instance, one could be titled "30_caresses: In the dark", and that's the title of the entire thing.)

I might be a bit distracted with playing my xbox but I do want to get writing on it further, if not finish it tomorrow.
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Replace "playing my xbox" with "learning how to start a business" and you get my situation.

Let us procrastinate on our fanfics together.
 
Astinus said:
Replace "playing my xbox" with "learning how to start a business" and you get my situation.

Let us procrastinate on our fanfics together.
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Hooray! XD

Though at least your stuff sounds uber serious especially compared to mine.

What is the business? *has money to invest* XD >.>

Though, once school starts again, I'll probably be quite busy...
 
...I can't believe I missed somebody ELSE bringing up Flight of the Conchords. ;_; I'd have had an actual excuse to fangirl! Nuuu.

At what point do you give your chapters a title? How do you usually choose a title?
When I've finished the chapter, am about to post it and realize, "Oh, yeah, I haven't titled this yet."

Although when I start writing the chapter, I write a little heading into my Word document with a working title, but the working title is usually something like "Stuff Happens" or "More Stuff Happens". Unless it's a legendary battle chapter, in which case it's the name of the legendary, because I do that for some reason.
 
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