Ha! That's exactly what I was just thinking. Too funny.
Do you know what else has blood in it? Blood.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
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vw bug - Apr 02, 2008 2:38:44 pm PDT #2971 of 10001
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amych - Apr 02, 2008 2:40:34 pm PDT #2972 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
That's exactly what I was just thinking.
Sounds like a winner, then!
(Incidentally, I'm very excited to see you heading for home on this project.)
vw bug - Apr 02, 2008 2:41:41 pm PDT #2973 of 10001
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Incidentally, I'm very excited to see you heading for home on this project.
You and me both! I'm going to finish it on time! Nothing will stop me! (Nobody will believe it!)
Susan W. - Apr 02, 2008 2:42:05 pm PDT #2974 of 10001
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I blame way too many years of bookselling, and failing to move endless variations on Blah Blah Pretentious Literarycakes: A Novel.
See, this I can live with if and only if the title confuses the issue without the "A Novel" bit. Like, if my WIP was called The Autobiography of Napoleon Bonaparte (which it is not, and Napoleon is not my personal Dead Guy, either--that would be Wellington), maybe I'd need the "A Novel" so no one would think it was N's actual memoir. But otherwise? So pretentious that it's almost enough to make me not buy the book all by itself.
vw bug - Apr 02, 2008 2:43:47 pm PDT #2975 of 10001
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In my defense, I used "A Case Study," because I don't want anyone to think that I've used 50 narrators or something. This is a VERY beginning study of one person...well, actually, one story from one person.
Susan W. - Apr 02, 2008 2:48:19 pm PDT #2976 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
FWIW, vw, I wasn't knocking any of your titles, just tangentially riffing on the Blah Blah Pretentious Literarycakes: A Novel phenomenon. I do think the "Case Study" title was a bit too long, but not pretentious.
amych - Apr 02, 2008 2:48:41 pm PDT #2977 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
No defense needed, vw! It's a habitual tic in the book world, which makes reactions like mine something to be aware of -- but there are both legit cases for it, and plenty of opportunity for you to make your methodology clear within the thesis. You don't have to explain it all in the title in this case.
vw bug - Apr 02, 2008 2:55:01 pm PDT #2978 of 10001
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Oh, sorry. That was awfully touchy. Didn't mean for it to be...just explaining my reasoning, which clearly wasn't necessary.
vw bug - Apr 02, 2008 2:58:24 pm PDT #2979 of 10001
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Poptarts:
Mom, this picture is neither an attractive picture of me NOR the bride. Do you really have to post it? [link]
-t - Apr 02, 2008 3:00:58 pm PDT #2980 of 10001
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I love The Inheritance of Stories, with Narrative Inheritance coming in second. For the sub title Oral History as Literature gets my vote. It will be clear that it's a case study within a few sentences of the introduction or abstract or whatever you thesis writers start off with, right?