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merGo over to the Word Frequency in Fantasy Titles 2009.
Connect words. There cannot be words in between your connections, but any direction is okay--up, down, back, forward. Create a book title of three or more listwords that makes a modicum of sense. AT LEAST a modicum.
Give yourself 1 point for each word from the board in the title.
Subtract 1 point for each preposition or conjunction you use that is two letters or less.
Subtract 2 points for each preposition or conjunction you use that is three letters or more.
The first article is free, but additional articles will cost you 1 point.
Add 1 point if you write a logline for the book.
Add 1 point if the title is so clear you don't NEED a logline, for the awesomeness speaks for itself.
By the rules above, you may create the series/trilogy/whatever title, and add ONE HALF of those points to the total (always round down; the tie goes in favor of the attacker in this game). (The words quartet/trilogy/series etc. are freebies.)
Example:
Zombie Wolf Apocalypse Assassin, book one of The Dark Red Kill Daughter Trilogy.
Zombie Wolf Apocalypse Assassin--while the title speaks for itself, honestly! It's about an assassin who runs around in the Zombie Wolf Apocalypse. Obviously, the assassin takes out Zombie Wolves and protects humanity and all that stuff. The reference to "Dark Red Kill Daughter" is, like, somehow related to Little Red Riding Hood or something.
I earned6 7 points (Math??):
-4 points each for Zombie, Wolf, Apocalypse, Assassin.
-No deductions for conjunctions or prepositions.
-No article penalty.
-We'll give me 1 point for the title being as good as a logline; the logline I attempted is pretty much not one.
-2 points for the series title (4 words, no penalties, divided by 2)
Uhm.
*pant*
Connect words. There cannot be words in between your connections, but any direction is okay--up, down, back, forward. Create a book title of three or more listwords that makes a modicum of sense. AT LEAST a modicum.
Give yourself 1 point for each word from the board in the title.
Subtract 1 point for each preposition or conjunction you use that is two letters or less.
Subtract 2 points for each preposition or conjunction you use that is three letters or more.
The first article is free, but additional articles will cost you 1 point.
Add 1 point if you write a logline for the book.
Add 1 point if the title is so clear you don't NEED a logline, for the awesomeness speaks for itself.
By the rules above, you may create the series/trilogy/whatever title, and add ONE HALF of those points to the total (always round down; the tie goes in favor of the attacker in this game). (The words quartet/trilogy/series etc. are freebies.)
Example:
Zombie Wolf Apocalypse Assassin, book one of The Dark Red Kill Daughter Trilogy.
Zombie Wolf Apocalypse Assassin--while the title speaks for itself, honestly! It's about an assassin who runs around in the Zombie Wolf Apocalypse. Obviously, the assassin takes out Zombie Wolves and protects humanity and all that stuff. The reference to "Dark Red Kill Daughter" is, like, somehow related to Little Red Riding Hood or something.
I earned
-4 points each for Zombie, Wolf, Apocalypse, Assassin.
-No deductions for conjunctions or prepositions.
-No article penalty.
-We'll give me 1 point for the title being as good as a logline; the logline I attempted is pretty much not one.
-2 points for the series title (4 words, no penalties, divided by 2)
Uhm.
*pant*
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Date: 2010-08-19 11:50 pm (UTC)The Death-Hunt King Quartet ("Stormshadow Mage," "Moonfire Thief," "Shieldspell Knight" and "Edgebound God") follows the adventures of three young people as they attempt to free their kingdom from the grip of the Mad Gods of the Edge, who have literally uprooted the country and wrapped it in their fever-dream spells. In "Stormshadow Mage," the young mage-scholar Wystyl stumbles upon a magical discovery that reveals the rotting roots of her own world—and that marks her for death. In the second book, Wystyl, now on the run from her own coterie of mages, meets Tein, the eponymous "Moonfire Thief," a faeblooded n'er-do-well who becomes her unwilling ally in her struggle. In "Shieldspell Knight," Elles, a Knight of the Realm, is confronted with the terrible truths that Wystyl and Tein found, and must forswear ancient oaths to right an even more ancient crime. Finally, in "Edgebound Gods," the three seek the legendary Death-Hunt King, the insane king of the godblooded, for a final confrontation....
That was fun!
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Date: 2010-08-20 12:03 pm (UTC)I count 5-6 points, since under the Robert Jordan clause, you can only submit 1 title from a series. ;)
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Date: 2010-08-20 01:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-20 02:46 am (UTC)Though I'm fondest of Black Death, Night Death. That's the first book in the Cursed Midnight Tale series of children's historicals told Dr. Seuss-style. By my count that's only 6 points, falling short of your 7, but I'm too amused to be competitive.