Wednesday, July 29, 2009

now i've got to come up with a post title too?

So, I've been wanting to make a little blog for a while now, and the thing that's stopped me has been a title.

I don't know why, but I'm so very not good at titles. When my short story Shanghaied was published in the book Portland Noir this summer, my proposed title, which I agonized over for a long time, was so boring the editor chose a title for me. I've been walking around trying to come up with some perfectly ingenious name for my blog that would totally exemplify me and all that I love in this world, throwing out all sorts of lofty stuff, chickening out with all the lofty stuff because it felt like I was trying to say I had a lofty brain, paging through favorite old books for quotes, forgetting I was looking for quotes and just reading instead...

Then last night, with a half hour between Lana Turner and picking up Stephen, I just decided to cut the lofty and the name of my blog would be The Name Of My Blog.

The idea of that made my brain happy. I jumped on the site and put it in.

Taken.

Taken?

Alright, then... My Blog Has No Name.

Taken?

I started just throwing random stuff out.

dsfgsej

Taken? Really?

I don't remember all the weird, random stuff I threw at the blog engine - Blogus Titlus... My Blog Really, Really Has No Title... Mrs. Mollywoggle And Her Poodle, Captain Stud (no, I didn't actually try that one), but time was a-wasting. Somehow since I'd started this, I decided I had to find a name before I left to pick my husband up from work. At the last moment I tossed out something that had been rolling around in my brain the whole time I'd been trying to come up with a title. Something I'd kept coming back to but kept discarding because it seemed too... yes, lofty.

And lo and behold, whaddya know, surprise-surprise, and yada yada yada.

So, I took it.

So, now I have a blog with a title. And I get to agonize over blog post titles whenever I want!

10 comments:

  1. Good job! Though Captain Stud might have been nice, too.

    So, are you going to translate it for the non-ancient Romans?

    S

    PS - How come you don't have the thing where you have to type in some made-up word, so you don't get spam? Yes, I know there's a word for that.

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  2. As a non ancient roman I have a thought as to what it means.. but I'm probably wrong.. but, whatever it means.. I'm going to enjoy your blog!!

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  3. Ancient Roman? Where's Frank when you need him

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  4. He's only 33! Jeez, Don, you're so age-ist!

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  5. Was bloggydoki taken? If so I would sue for copyright infringement...

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  6. Oh my god, bloggydoki! How did I used to spell it? -dacky, I think. Does it work as well? Bloggydacky? Oh my god! I'm going to check right now!

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  7. YAY me! Well, I am going to call this site your bloggydacky no matter what because 1)I have no idea what the title means and 2) haven't a clue how to pronounce it. . .

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  8. blog title explanation coming soon. would've done it today, but then we watched trog, and i couldn't not write about it.

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