Cram as much information and detail into the title as you can, even if this means sacrificing the readability of said title and somewhat stealing the thunder of the main body of the work itself, which is left only really being able to reiterate what has already been said in the title, which was itself clumsy and repetitious


See above.

Posted by Joel Stickley on 17.3.10

11 comments:

  2. Isn't this what Dave Eggers does?

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  3. Don't pick on Dave Eggers.

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  4. See also: DFW

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  5. Don't pick on DFW, either.

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  6. I like short titles like Buddy, and Buddy's Song.

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  7. By indicating who I am in this manner, I hope to elicit an amused chuckle from the reader and perhaps a financially beneficial mistake on the part of the reader's web browser as it attempts to grapple with my enormous nameMar 18, 2010 11:10 AM

    - MarcT

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  8. Any number of Ph.D dissertations would fit the bill.

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  9. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, Etc. Who Was Born In Newgate, and During a Life of Continu'd Variety For Threescore Years, Besides Her Childhood, Was Twelve Year a Whore, Five Times a Wife [Whereof Once To Her Own Brother], Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon In Virginia, At Last Grew Rich, Liv'd Honest, and Died a Penitent. Written from her own Memorandums.

    No, really. That's its title.

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  10. Are you picking on Carlo Collodi too?

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  11. Heh. Sounds like Sufjan Stevens.

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