A good title for a biography

For some authors, a title for your memoir will just magically appear to you: when you’re in the shower, chopping vegetables, trying to go to sleep, or in some other random moment.

Maybe a friend put an idea in your head and you decided to run with it, and there’s no looking back.

For other authors?

Um, yeah. Not so much. You’ve got nothing.

I mean, your manuscript is solid. But you’re completely stumped when trying to come up with a title for it.

Choosing a Title for Your Autobiography - Pictures and Stories

Good ideas may seem to elude you. Or you come up with an idea, only to talk yourself out of it, change it straightaway, or become so attached to it that no amount of pleading, no amount of chocolate, coffee, hard cash, or whatever it is that gets you motivated, can convince you to give it up.

What, then, is so tricky or challenging about coming up with good memoir titles?

Part of it is the closeness you have to the book.

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