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Duncan McNeil said:
The thing is, some people confuse overused words with words that should be used. Like in my title, Blazing Dreams: Legends of Sinnoh. Sure, you can exchange a few words in the title. But words that reference places like Sinnoh and the like usually are just fine.

True, they may also be overused. But small touches like that are what emphasize that the story is Pokemon. And it also works the other way around. For a book (or movie) about WWII, there's usually some part in the title that shows that it had to do with WWII. This can be the case in just about every other genre of books or movies.
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when it comes to doujinshi, there's very rarely an indication within the title that the story belongs to a particular franchise. Take this for example (there's quite a bit of side-boob showing, but it should be SFW nonetheless). Even though most fans refer to it as "Evangelion: RE-TAKE", nowhere does the cover say "Evangelion". It only says "RE TAKE", and there is no hint that this doujin is based off of Eva except for the presence of one of its characters, Asuka. Ignoring the fact that Asuka is a rather well-known figure in all of anime fandom, the manga seems to have been intended for people who have prior knowledge of the series, as that would be the audience it's trying to appeal towards. So long as there's a visual clue like that, making it even more obvious in the title would just be overkill. And really, I think trying to force a fanwork's basis into the title just comes off being really cheesy in some cases.... it could even prove advantageous not to include such a thing (though I doubt there's a soul alive who's never at least heard of Evangelion, or Pokemon for that matter, a person who never got into the series or never felt like giving it a chance could become interested in the cover's artwork, thinking it's just typical hentai or something, only to become a fan through the characters or concepts that they're introduced to. I heard several official copyright holders actually encourage doujinshi because of this).

Fanfiction's the same way. Sure, there's no visuals like with a manga cover, but ask yourself: where are you right now? A Pokemon forum. So even though there are some non-Pokemon fics around here (some of which are labeled to indicate such), you can expect a majority of the works to be based off of that franchise which you are more than likely a fan of in some way judging from your presence here alone. Even in places like fanfiction.net, they have categories, so the content should be obvious from the location alone.
 
I understand what you're saying. All I was trying to say is that putting words like Johto, Kanto and things specific to Pokemon are okay to put in Fan Fic titles. I don't mean that all titles should be like that. Just that it's okay.
 
It is okay to use those words. I mean, no one can tell you to change your title if you're satisfied with it.

But this just reminds me of a topic talked about years ago in this thread. Frostweaver said that on a forum, the first thing that draws your readers' attention is the title, and if you have a generic title, they might just think that it's a generic fic, no matter how well-written it is. Which is why people go for the more creative titles, to find out what happens. It generally works that way. Not all the time, but most of the time.
 
Speaking of my fanfic...I would preciate some views. Even though it's super-duper-short
 
same here, i just wanna know if mine simply seems interesting enough to continue writing
 
thanx but I hate my new title so much. I couldn't think of anything else
 
Titles are fun to come up with...in my opinion anyway. My fanfic titles tend to be fairly simple and not very out of the ordinary. Rarely do they change once I've bolded or underlined it in a word document. I also like titles that encompass the theme of the story somehow... but then again, who doesn't?
 
Brock_Lee, finished your review. It's really long, but if you can make it all the way through it should be helpful.

Anyway, I just posted chapter four of Blazing Dreams. Comments and reviews would really be helpful to me, as I'm about to do a major rewrite of the first few chapters. Thanks in advance!
 
Azonic said:
*sigh* no one posts in my first FanFic T.T

must be a bad title
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Heh, I know how you feel. But I guess as you write more chapters, people will look.

Unsuccessful for me though. Everytime I ask for reviews, the person is busy.
 
Azonic said:
*sigh* no one posts in my first FanFic T.T

must be a bad title
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I'll take a look at it, okay?

TurtleKing said:
Heh, I know how you feel. But I guess as you write more chapters, people will look.

Unsuccessful for me though. Everytime I ask for reviews, the person is busy.
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I'll review yours as well. Might be a day or two, though. I've got a few fics to catch up on Serebii as well.
 
Hey duncan, mind reviewing my super short fic?
 
Okay. It's a very short chapter and I'm so lazy and I have leik, a migrain rite now, so I'm not editing until leik, tomorrow
 
Heheh. Anyone up for commenting on half a chapter of a fanfic? I've got a preview just aching for attention while I'm on holiday up in the writer's lounge.
 
Hey, if anyone needs some reviews, I'm currentely very bored, so just tell me.
 
Great...now I have to go read 50 bagillion chapters...jk. I'll go check it out.
 
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