Give Me One Good Reason To Read This: Nailing Your Title

Presented by Shoshauna Shy

When: June 2, 7-8:30pm CST.

Where: Virtual

In her work as an editor for personal clients, and as a developmental editor for a flash fiction journal, it became obvious how authors—even with a stellar piece of work—struggle to locate a title to help click everything into place.  

Shoshauna has come up with a baker’s dozen of potential ideas for creating titles to benefit shorter works. When you have put a lot of effort into your writing, don’t shortchange it by ignoring the opportunities a good title offers! In this presentation/workshop, you will learn new ways to approach this final step. Through examples and an exercise, including a post-session one to conduct with your own bookshelves, Shoshauna offers a toolbox of suggestions to keep on hand. You will learn how to:

• Peel back the layers of your completed short story, flash piece, essay or poem and uncover its best title
• Elevate, embellish or expand on the meaning conveyed in your work
• Provide scaffolding, context, a sardonic twist or mystery that the reader needs to decode
• Evoke something that happens after the work ends—or before it begins
• Consider how an intriguing title can be a gift to another author in the way that it inspires, cajoles or provokes them into writing something new of their own

Click HERE to register (WWA members only)