I'll have to say that a title isn't the most important thing for me. I look to the summary and the pairing before I even pay attention to the title. I won't read a fic if the author says, "I suck at summarys..." or if the pairing is icky to me. I'm also turned off if the author won't list or forgets to list the pairing or the rating. I don't like surprises. But the title really isn't the deciding factor for me. I don't care if people use song titles, or share titles, or whatever. The story itself is far more important. That being said... I do know that I am in the minority here. I struggle with fic titles more than with any other part of the writing process. And after having posted a handful of fics, I can honestly say that I know how important a title is. At least to most people. I'm usually not really happy with my titles but on two occasions (one especially) I have posted stories with titles that were just not good. I can only plead temporary insanity. *hides face* And even though I thought the stories were done well, even though I thought the stories were good, I got very few reviews. And I really believe that there is a direct correlation there. The titles of the stories that have done the best all came from a line somewhere in the story or else were very simple. When I try to spend too much time obsessing over a title of a fic I tend to just get worse and worse.

I'm glad you posted this. Even though I had joked with my beta about no one liking a fic of mine with a title that she described as, "wafting slightly of cheese," I never really thought seriously about it. Thanks for the insight.