{"id":689,"date":"2010-08-24T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2010\/08\/24\/fantasy-titles\/"},"modified":"2010-08-24T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T17:47:00","slug":"fantasy-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2010\/08\/24\/fantasy-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitbooks.net\/2010\/08\/19\/the-chart-of-fantasy-art-part-4-title-trends\/\">Orbit books:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_sS4sIiNH6pg\/THQGmvMBn7I\/AAAAAAAAAcs\/5Udb4IicfX4\/s1600\/Word+Frequency+in+Fantasy+titles+2009.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_sS4sIiNH6pg\/THQGmvMBn7I\/AAAAAAAAAcs\/5Udb4IicfX4\/s400\/Word+Frequency+in+Fantasy+titles+2009.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Full Disclosure: I have a wip entitled, &#8220;Arena of the Dragons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, &#8220;dragon&#8221; is the most common word in fantasy titles. *grin*<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some other ideas for titles using these popular words (why not go with what works?):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Blood of the Death Dragon&#8217;s Shadow God<br \/>Edge of the Dark Red Zombie Wolf<br \/>Bite of the Black Elf<br \/>Angel of the Sin Spells<br \/>Queen of the Iron Dragon Fire<br \/>Map of the Rising Ghost City<br \/>Tomb of the Seeker&#8217;s Daughter<br \/>Kill the Assassin<br \/>Princess of the Silver Storm<br \/>Bound to the Witch Hunt<br \/><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cheesy? Sure! But look what happens when you try to come up with titles that don&#8217;t sound traditionally fantasy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>An Accountant&#8217;s Guide to Taxes<br \/>Things to Wear with Shoes<br \/>A Big Green Garbage Can<br \/>The Best Restaurants in South Carolina<br \/><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, those may be great books, but if you were looking for sword and sorcery, they wouldn&#8217;t be very appealing, would they?<\/p>\n<p>How about the straight-forward approach:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Dudes With Pointy Sticks Kill Each Other<br \/>A Girl Grows Up Despite Being Chased by Weird Guys in Black Cowls<br \/>Hobbits Decide to Get Foot Wax<br \/>Farm Boy Makes it Big<br \/>Glowy Magic, Big City<br \/>Lifestyles of the Rich and Magical<br \/>Generic Castle, Unwieldy Sword and Winged Reptile<br \/>Elves By Any Other Name Would Have Ears Just as Pointy<br \/><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Orbit books: Full Disclosure: I have a wip entitled, &#8220;Arena of the Dragons.&#8221; Yes, &#8220;dragon&#8221; is the most common word in fantasy titles. *grin* Here&#8217;s some other ideas for titles using these popular words (why not go with what works?): Blood of the Death Dragon&#8217;s Shadow GodEdge of the Dark Red Zombie WolfBite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}