Thank you! I’m now eager to read RoL. I’ve immediately ordered the first book from my library, and I’ll save these RoL fanfic recs. I’m afraid I haven’t got a very visual mind, and I’ve never been fond of comics, either.
In my early fanfic years I was tempted to write longer summaries, but now I try to make it only one sentence – but never one directly from the story text. My summaries are always written in third-person POV and they reveal at least the protagonist’s name and usually the time and place, too (not the theme but perhaps rather the topic or the situation at the beginning). Now that I checked some of my latest stories – those I’ve posted on AO3 – I noticed that most of their titles, either, don’t reveal the first person, after all.
I don’t think we should feel sad about our picked-from-the text titles! (Well, you’ve seen that I’ve got unconventional tastes, and perhaps this doesn’t comfort you, but…) I consider some such titles the best possible. After completing a fic I look for a phrase – preferably an unusual, ambiguous combination of a few words – which somehow refers to the theme of (and perhaps to something else, too, like to a central concrete element in) the story. If I can’t find one, I’m not so happy with the story.
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In my early fanfic years I was tempted to write longer summaries, but now I try to make it only one sentence – but never one directly from the story text. My summaries are always written in third-person POV and they reveal at least the protagonist’s name and usually the time and place, too (not the theme but perhaps rather the topic or the situation at the beginning). Now that I checked some of my latest stories – those I’ve posted on AO3 – I noticed that most of their titles, either, don’t reveal the first person, after all.
I don’t think we should feel sad about our picked-from-the text titles! (Well, you’ve seen that I’ve got unconventional tastes, and perhaps this doesn’t comfort you, but…) I consider some such titles the best possible. After completing a fic I look for a phrase – preferably an unusual, ambiguous combination of a few words – which somehow refers to the theme of (and perhaps to something else, too, like to a central concrete element in) the story. If I can’t find one, I’m not so happy with the story.