What comes first the book or the title?
I coach writers as part of the services we offer. During my coaching sessions I discuss titles for books. The title and cover are very important to your sales potential. Writers ask me, how to come up with a stellar title? The answer: Inspiration ! Where does inspiration come from? Creativity ! Can you force creativity? I don't know. Creativity exists in every profession, including science. It's the ability to look at something entirely different. What came first, the creativity or the inspiration? I think in some ways they bubble up together. An inspired thought is often a creative thought. A creative thought is an inspired thought. The proverbial all-time chicken or the egg question. For me when I come up with titles it's often the title creates the story. When I came up with the idea to do the California Girl Chronicles series, I thought of the title first. I thought that sounded like a great title. The next question I asked myself: what wou...