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So you’re finally finished writing it – the thing that has taken up all of your free time for the past two years (or more), the monkey on your back that wouldn’t let آپ sleep, that had آپ pulling out your pen and paper while on vacation with your family because The Idea came to you…
Well, you’re finished. آپ want to print it out, slap on a title, and send it off.
Hold up, there partner! Pause, breathe, put the the manuscript down. Easy! There آپ go….
What’s the big deal with a title?
Everything! It’s the first thing that a potential reader will see, the line that will either catch an editor’s attention یا send it straight to the trash can. Just as your name represents you, the عنوان of your book must be representative and catchy for your novel.
The good, the bad, and the ugly…    
There are three distinct groups of titles.
The first is the good: the ones that catch attention, make a reader pick the book up, scan the front, turn it over and read the back, and then on to the checkout stand. Examples: Empress, Boiling Point, Crown of Thorns, Slaughterhouse-Five, A Feast for Crows.
The bad: have a hit and miss chance of grabbing a reader, with good enough cover art and some fantastic quotes from the New York Times یا Publisher’s Weekly, they may be read. They probably won’t be the first book a reader picks up, but it’s possible. Examples: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, War of the Gods, Secrets of Droon: The Hidden Stairs and the Magic Carpet, Maximum Ride: the Angel Experiment.
Then the ugly: get the response “how did this ever get onto this shelf?” “What was the editor/author thinking?” Examples: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, The Adventures of شارک Boy and Lava Girl…
So how do آپ name it?
Unfortunately, while there is a plethora of baby-name کتابیں flooding the market and internet, there is no “novel-name book” for authors. So, آپ must be creative. Which really shouldn’t be that hard – hell, آپ wrote a book, didn’t you?
Coming up with the name of your novel should be a process started at the same time آپ write the firs paragraph, and honestly, will and should go on until you’re done with your final edit. It’s not an easy task – parents may argue and pine over it for nine months – why should your naming process be any different?
Following are several tips to help آپ come up witht the ideal name for your “baby.” These are merely brainstorming techniques to hopefully help something click in that creative cavity آپ have sitting between your shoulders:
Make a list
1. the names of your main characters
2. the major places in your book
3. any special talismans/objects that play a specific/important role (ie. The Sword of Shanara)
4. creatures, animals, aliens, names
Your plot
1. what is the point of your book?
2. is there a journey? To where? For why?
3. are آپ writing about a deeper meaning?
4. can آپ tie in your book with current events یا مقبول topics? (ie the Davinci Code)
5. what are your characters trying to do?
Google is your best friend
1. تلاش for pictures of a theme, character, creature, place, etc. that آپ feel represents your book. You’ll come across some cool (and weird) things, and may give آپ direction.
2. see what others writing about similar topics are using for titles. Make sure your عنوان isn’t too close to another’s.
3. get some مزید backstory on an item, relic, place, یا animal in your story. Again, think muse…
Have fun
1. play up on words and items in your book (ie One of our newest کتابیں due out اگلے summer is “Of Quills and Kings,” in which the villan is a demonic and sadistic hedgehog that overthrows the crown…)
2. be witty. آپ are trying to grab science fiction/fantasy/horror/etc fans, not collegiate professors that enjoy spending all of their waking hours with their pet rock. Uh…
3. be original. آپ want to stand out, but don’t be too off-beat that آپ scare people away.

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posted by Problematic129
    Chapter 8
    Old enemies
    “Welcome everyone! To Club Aprenta!” Ali laughed excitedly and clapped her hands, Sage whistled, I jumped up and down, and Beth bowed in front of the newest additions.
    “Club Aprenta?” Scotty asked. “What kind of name is that? And what do we do anyways?”
    I shrugged. “Nothing really, we just made this up to spend مزید time together, آپ know how can school be.”
    “In other words,” Honey put her hands up in the air. “FREE...
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posted by SilverFanGirl
Thanks for the memories
Chapter one
June 6, 1994, my birth. My mother never meant to have me. Never did. My father's condom apparently broke so they were stuck with me. A babygirl. I had short brown hair with amber eyes. But when I was born, I had blue with a light brown lining around my pupil. The doctors never could figure that part out. My eyes changed quicker than most babies. My eyes changed a week earlier than they were supposed to. That's why I get picked on, I tell that story and no one believes me. They call me "Weirdo", "fake", etc.
Though my mother left and my father is a total drunk,...
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posted by alicia386
Chapter 7: آپ Can't Trust Anyone These Days

      James Knight slumped in his chair. It seemed like the most appropriate thing to do in this situation. How else was he suppose to act? He was a train wreck waiting to happen. He didn't bother combing his dirty blonde hair یا wear decent clothes. He still had on his Lakers sweatshirt کے, سویاٹشارٹ and faded blue jeans with holes ripped in the front. This was the kind of outfit he wouldn't dare where around the house if this was a regular day. For shoes, he had his scuffed, black Reeboks. His eyes were red and puffy but he still radiated that devilish charm...
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posted by Dhampires
She waited at the doorstep nearly all night he never came.

She quietly made my way to our room his image was the only thing that flooded my head.

'Would he come home? Had something happened to him? If it had why hadn't someone called?' she was thought she knee on the inside she was being over dramatic.

She leaned over her balcony looking on to the woods beyond the night stares filled the sky shimmering like diamonds, she smiled as the northern lights appeared it was rare to see in such a place other han Alaska but they shown bright. And as quickly as they came they left.

She quickly washed up and...
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posted by alicia386
I use to know you
but now its over
and i am not going back
had my دل broken
had my dreams blown away
it only took آپ a second
to rearrange my whole day

I use to know you
but now its over
and i see that now
آپ blew me away
far from here
and i couldnt make it back
but i bet آپ knew that

I use to know
someone like you
he was friendly
but i left him behind
in the rain
in the cold
where i couldnt see him

i hope you're different
it would help
if آپ werent exactly like him
nice to know you
but i must go
and protect my soul
how nice of آپ to stop by
but please go ہوم now

I use to know you
but now im long gone
and it feels great'
to leave that burden behind
i wont see آپ again
i wont be there when آپ fall
just know that i
wont pick آپ up again
posted by para-scence
“Craig! Get up! We’re going to be late!“ My sister Rachel pounded her fist on my door. I reluctantly opened my eyes to look at the clock. I had only ten منٹ to get ready. I cursed under my breath and got dressed quickly, not bothering to grab anything to eat. I got to Rachel’s car just before she was about to ditch me. I tried to catch up on my algebra homework on the car ride to school.

“You really should’ve done that yesterday,“ Rachel scolded me. “You’re failing as it is.“ Of course, little miss perfect always had to tell me what I was doing wrong, even if she was...
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posted by Problematic129
Part 15, ارے lovelies, another one! Yaya! This particular one is dedicated to the beautiful Amanda Todd, may she rest in peace. If آپ don't know who she is, well she was a victim to bullying, which pushed her to commit suicide, facebook has a page dedicated to her 'R.I.P. Amanda Todd', check it out and support. Words can have a huge impact on people, and when something like this happens, well were not going to ignore it. Say no to bullying! A shout out to reasons to love being alive tumblr, a really nice place :). I don't own anything, nada, zilch. These pictures are not mine, at all. Enjoy!
posted by 1999jacko
Gemini tunneled under the ground spinning in circles causing the ground to rumble. As he reached his brothers old house he felt something in his head snap loose as though a part of his brain and been cut open and dissected. " ARGH" he screamed as he stopped tunneling and scoured through his mind looking for something different یا missing, he soon found the thingt hat was missing. His empathy link with Libra which meant only one thing his brother is dead, he quickly jumped through the earth and dived into the air taking huge leaps through the air the earth rising beneath his feet, he soon reached...
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posted by alicia386
This is a story I have been wanting to write for a long time and I hope آپ enjoy it.



Reincarnation

"I'll do it!" I shouted at the سب, سب سے اوپر of my lungs. "I'll really do it!" They honestly thought I wouldn't do it. They honestly believed I was crazy but I'm not! I'm not crazy! I refuse to believe that I am mentally insane.

"Just put the چھری down," کہا my father in a soothing tone. I'm not a baby. آپ can't force me to do anything. "Becky, honey, آپ don't want to kill yourself. It will not bring آپ joy."

We were circling around the رات کے کھانے, شام کا کھانا میز, جدول and I had a چھری close to my throat. One اقدام and...
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posted by 1999jacko
" Oh no, no, no and no again im losing it man I can't do it no more. I'm falling got it now leave me alone." I sat on my بستر tears streaming down my face, the things in his vision were fighting me making me do things I didn't want, but he was fighting. Yet I was losing and all because I couldn't get anything to go right without a multiple of five یا five, nothing went right without five. I couldn't find anyway one to help me in my fight, I can't believe my 4 دوستوں had abandoned me(4 I told آپ nothing ever went right without 5). The sound of footsteps got louder and the doctor came in and...
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posted by tigerseye43
This is a poem I came up with

The pain is far greater
the pain is almost blinding
آپ کہا you'd always love me
a rope of love wrapped around me, a binding

But now I know the truth
You're nothing but a fake
آپ took my دل and played with it
and now my دل does nothing but ache

I wish to hear your voice again
I wish آپ had never hurt me
for now I can't even look at آپ
without having to turn and flee

This pain has gotten worse
I can't stand it much longer
but if I take a blade....
I can take the pain آپ gave me and make a different pain stronger.
posted by Problematic129
Chapter 5
    So old news
    Blood, that was all I saw big dark, nauseating blood. I couldn’t look away from the grotesque thing, it just caught my attention, as dark and scary as it’ll ever get.
    Luckily it was fake blood.    
    “Do آپ like it?” Lila asked, looking at me expectantly.
    “Um…yes, it’s lovely and very, very real looking” I shudder.
    “Where’d آپ get it?” فرن, فارن asks, looking disturbed. “It even smells real.”
    Sasha...
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posted by alicia386
Chapter Thirteen: Eat Them Before They Eat You

      It was early the اگلے morning when I woke up. The night before seemed like a dream to me. I expected to find myself in the school dorm یا in a hotel because dad and I had to stop before we go continue the mission. Then I realized that I was actually stuck in headquarters with Darrell, Courtney, and Raven. Raven was up and walking to do. She still wouldn't talk but she was walking. Darrell was still sleeping along with Courtney. The realization of finding myself in this position made it increasingly hard to fall back to sleep.
      Raven...
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Chapter 13
    The whole gang
    “So…? Um…would آپ rather, live on an island for a سال but then be saved and become a billionaire, یا get stuck on a cruise ship for a three months with no money whatsoever?” I ask.    
    Ryler ums, while Beth scrunches up her eyes, the others just boringly blink. Beth جوابات first.
    “Stuck on a cruise ship.”
    “Why?” I question.
    “Well…think about it, I’m going to have to find food, clothes,...
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آپ lurk in the shadows...You keep a distance from society,You have no priorties,except...to stay away.You think آپ have (absolutely) no destiny.Come out,Come out,Come out-Let me see آپ clearly.

(Chorus) آپ can't stay hidden all your damn life,it's like your forbidden to live without strife:and I don't understand...why آپ have to be a mystery man (man,man) a mystery man.

You come out in the dark, gaze at the moon wondering why آپ can't find your mark (in life,in life) آپ flee to your car,I try to catch آپ but all I hear instead is vroom,vroom as آپ drive away (who knows why your going...
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posted by Problematic129
Part 11!!! Okay so, super duper sorry for it being so so so late! So I'm going to try to make this short and simple, I own nothing! Nada, zero, zilch. Most of these I found on pinterest, tumbr, twitter, blogs, all that sha bang. I own nothing. These pictures aren't mine. I love آپ guys, thanks for viewing, stay strong, stay beautiful, and stay you.
Right now I thought it would be kind to give آپ a songlist, of some very powerful/nice songs. Random different nice. Just thought you'd like it. Go check 'em out.
The pretty reckless-under the water
Orla Gartland-Devil on my shoulder
Toby mac-city...
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posted by Problematic129
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    “Is this true?” The man whispered, not wanting to get his hopes up.
    The two intimidating men nodded in their polished looking suits. “Reports have been made there,” one of them spoke.
    “The reports?”
    The other man nodded. “Yes sir, the time has come, the book has been found.”
    “You’d better be correct,” the man whispered threateningly. “Or I won’t take it to kindly to dead ends.”
    “Were sure.”    
    The...
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posted by alicia386
Chapter Eleven: I Don't Hate آپ But If آپ Were On Fire, I Would Laugh

      "Nice to see آپ again, McKenna," says Arnold Stuart, my father's best friend and researcher. He handles anything and everything my father needs to know about. Arnold comes in handy one missions and assignments. Arnold was able to track down the guy who چرا لیا, چوری کی my wallet right out of my dad's truck. Let's just say that the guy had a punishment much worse then prison. 
      "Hello, Arnold," I greeted. "Is this important? آپ could have just called. I might be a spy but I do own a cell phone."
      "I didn't...
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posted by Problematic129
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    Terry
    I nervously wrung my hands as Alex continued to tell us what happened, I wanted to ask questions, make suggestions, but I couldn’t trust myself to that. The last time I suggested something I almost killed Iris and made her hate us all, I didn’t sure didn’t want a repeat.
    “She کہا it English!” Stilere yelled excitedly. “How awesome is that!”
    Brooklyn nodded like a scolded puppy, and risked a glance at Iris, who smiled at her. “Cool.”
    “Yeah, it was,...
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posted by alicia386
Chapter One

      The constant roaring of the thunder and the sparks shooting from the lightening آپ would have thought we had planned for this. Nothing is planned for in Somnium. No one expects these tragic events to occur. Even if we did plan for it, it still wouldn't change the mood. It would not make me feel any better. It wouldn't change the fact that my brother was now lying in a cold coffin dead.
      The weather was the least of my concerns at the moment. This funus, یا celebration for the dead, was at my سب, سب سے اوپر priority list. Although I should be worrying about my fate, I wasn't....
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