by Peggy Bechko
All right! You wrote it, now what are you going to call it? What’s the perfect title for that script that’ll catch a reader’s eye and maybe put it to the top of the stack? What’s the ‘grab-ya’ title for the book manuscript that will get a reader to pick it up and peruse the story?
Yep, it’s a dilemma, that is.
Let’s start at the beginning. First of all a title is short. Yes, yes, I know there are some that use long titles and are successful – yes, yes, yadda, yadda, right. Now that we’ve gotten past that just because YOU happen to have a long, wonderful title let’s get real. Let’s throw out there four words or less.