The shitty first draft – the foundation of the story. The bare bones. There is something beautiful within those ten poorly written, jumbled, barely legible pages.
I have mastered the shitty first draft. Now, it’s the title – this one drove me insane.
James and I have bickered endlessly over a title for our new short story (as shown in the picture above). Generating this title has been exhausting and frustrating, but I think we have come to a decision:
“Television’s Prescription for Ratings”
Ah! There it is. Constructing this title was more difficult than writing the actual short story.
Stay tuned – Dr. Tyler Wright and his “death committee” are coming soon…
The Dystopian Nation of City-State 
I hope you don’t mind that I’ve reblogged this to my Writer’s Group page. I can remove it if you want. Blessed Be.
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Not at all! This is great! Thank you so much! 🙂
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Reblogged this on Writers Group 1.
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All first drafts should be shitty! It’s required! Sounds like a good title- I wish you all the best!
Sue
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Thanks! I think shitty first drafts may be my favorite part of the process (besides publication). 🙂
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Me too!
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When you write something I think that the title is actually the hardest bit… Well, the title, and the first sentence seem to be the hardest bit.
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You are right! Usually, titles for us haven’t been a problem, but this one had a mind of its own! 🙂
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nice image, and i like the title.
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Thanks! I love drafting and taking notes on used envelopes – especially envelopes for bills! Recycle! 🙂
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Hi y’all, first, thank you for the follow, and second, why would you follow me, when you’re so accomplished? A a leader, since you followed, I have no choice but to follow you as well. I’ve been most of the way through your site, and I am impressed w/ you….
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Well done, good people~!
After discovering that no-one liked what I wrote (other than me—does that count?) I tried self-publishing and promptly ran afoul of the US IRD. In brief, I don’t want to fund any part of Uncle Sam—so I tried publishing for free. Easy enough with Apple they tell me, but being technophobic I fell out of the tree there too.
In the end I made a couple of books available free as PDFs with WordPress … no idea if anyone’s ever looked into them (I suspect not) but at least I feel better for it.
So you have my utmost admiration and respect. Now don’t just sit there basking in the glory … go get’em, Tigers!
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Hello! Thanks for the comment! James and I are really trying to stand out in a healthy crowd of ebooks and self-published authors. It is really difficult – maybe more difficult than writing our novels and short stories. 🙂
James and I hope you visit our blog again – we plan on staying around for a while!
What books did you publish? 🙂
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Publish? Other than a few children’s books many years ago, just recently I put a couple of my whimsical ones into PDF form and shoved ’em up as ‘pages’ on my websites.
The one labelled ‘Free Book’ (catchy title?) (yuk) is a blatant hidden message intended to amuse, ‘Wanda’ is likewise.
I think I take too many liberties … 🙂
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As a writer, I can relate!
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Save them. Sometimes I hear something and think it would make a great title. Maybe a story will follow, maybe not. At lease I don’t have to go through the anguish you seem to have had.
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This is one of the biggest lessons I’ve had to learn & am still learning.
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Yes! I think shitty first drafts are my favorite part of the writing process 🙂
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