Thursday, September 21, 2017

Rejected Fanfiction Chapter Titles

I recently mentioned that Viola and I once spent an entire baseball game working on our Harry Potter fanfiction. I lied. I just came across the notebook we were using that day. It appears that we actually spent most of the game trying to come up with a title for the chapter we were composing.

Here is the fine selection of rejected titles from that evening:
-"The Buffalo Eater's Apprentice"
-"The Naive Mariner"
-"The Foolish Bee Herder"
-"Take Me Out to the Quidditch Game"
-"I Hate Everyone: The Chapter"
-"To Thine Own Self Be True"
-"You Belong With Me"
-"We Knew This Would Happen"
-"The Quibbler's Truth"
-"The Flying Bratwurst"
-"Alack. $3 for Parking."
-"The Fanfiction of Fanfictions: The Fanfiction"
-"The Fanfiction of Fanfictions: The Chapter"
-"How Voldemort Was Defeated and Other Things"
-"Receive a Drink or Slush for Free"
-"The Chapter that Shouldn't Exist"
-"I Object"
-"Hit Her Now, Hit Her"
-"This Chapter Is Not Titled"
-"We Couldn't Think of a Title"
-"The Foolish Flirt"
-"The Dice Dilemma with Dogs"
-"Poor Poor Draco, Whatcha Gonna Do?"
-"I Like Eating Dumplings. & Kisses."
-"Tests, Tricks, and Kisses"
-"The Overzealous Sports Fan"
-"The Annoying Girls Who Couldn't Speak in Coherent Sentences"

A few things: 1) No, I don't remember the context for most of these; 2) In case you were wondering, the titles of the ten preceding chapters in the fanfiction included such delights as "Harry Potter and the Magical Radio Braces," "The World Crashes to the Ground," and "The Escape of the Scented Sticker;" and 3) This is a pretty good representation of how being a writer is like 90% rejection of your own ideas (and 90% of your ideas being rejected by other people, which you might say doesn't make sense mathematically except it does because both of those things are happening simultaneously).

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