Keeper of the Superfluous Es!

In the past (like my first four or five stories), the title just kind of popped up out of nowhere or I'd write a fic based on a catchy title I'd come up with (only to realize later on that it really wasn't catchy -- at all. And the fic didn't really reflect the title...at all.) However, I've been finding recently that I write before I title a fic. For instance, Into the Terrible Night was untitled for about a month before I read a line in a story I was reading in my High School English class that kind of caught my attention because it was so poetic (I know, sappy...**busts out violin**).

My other fics, Bete Noire and...well, I'll call it Summary for now just because the title isn't set in stone, came ironically enough from Dictionary.com's word of the day. I've been working on Summary for a month and that is all I am still calling it.

I guess my biggest vice (or pet peeve) when reading fanfic is when the title is so sappy, so...stupid-sounding, as well as having a crappy tongue in cheek summary (or an accompanying sappy summary) that I just gag and move on to another story. Yes, I judge a fic by its title/summary suckiness. I'm guilty.

However, 'untitled' fics make me curious. 9 times out of 10, tho, they are sucky little one-shots.