What to call it?

catian · Feb 17, 2012

My story is a story within a story.
It is a story that finds itself in reality.
The characters in the story turn up to be real but the incidents of the story are not.
The characters all eventually meet up, outside the book if you like, in real life, to challenge the story to a new plot and ending.
It is a bit like watching yourself in a book and you have the power to change the bits you do not like about the story.

I am trying to work out which genre it would belong to?
Is modern twist genre Ok?

Which of these two titles is most appealing?

a) The Hallways To Fame

b) The Past Has Doors

Thank you!

Layla Nahar · Feb 17, 2012

I would have a hard time guessing a genre based on what you describe. I've heard people here say that concerns about genre should be less important to the writer and that you should let your agent/publisher worry about that and just focus on the writing, but I guess you need some convenient way to express the story type in a cover letter. (Though I suppose you could say 'My story is about... rather than saying my story is a (genre here) about...)

Of the titles, neither grabs me outright, but if I had to pick I'd go for "The Hallways To Fame". Two words in a row ending with all those dentals... (& I think you missed an apostrophe.)

catian · Feb 17, 2012

Layla Nahar said:
I would have a hard time guessing a genre based on what you describe. I've heard people here say that concerns about genre should be less important to the writer and that you should let your agent/publisher worry about that and just focus on the writing, but I guess you need some convenient way to express the story type in a cover letter. (Though I suppose you could say 'My story is about... rather than saying my story is a (genre here) about...)

Of the titles, neither grabs me outright, but if I had to pick I'd go for "The Hallways To Fame". Two words in a row ending with all those dentals... (& I think you missed an apostrophe.)

Thank you for your help.

Two words in a row ending with all those dentals...

LOL this made me laugh.
I better change it.

pandaponies · Feb 17, 2012

I'm completely confused as to the bit of summary / what happens... but curious.

I vote for "The Hallways to Fame" out of those two. Definitely.

What to call it?

catian

Layla Nahar

Seashell Seller

catian

pandaponies

in ur boardz, correctin ur grammar