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30 Jun 2020 05:09When doing ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
china_shop's title meme, tinny commented on her temp titles and how she kept some of them. Now, I LOL'd at that when imagining my own temp titles – I only really scramble for a title at the last minute, so before that, the only title is the filename. And those tend to be quite literal. angstproposal, swtempdeath, twinroleswap, etc. Sometimes there's prefixes to categorize the things together: yz-hallowstheft, fsfeb-yqzh-geese, bal-lqsy-electricity. Sometimes the filename does contain something related to the fic concept, but which isn't that prominent in the actual finished product: goldencoreloss. Stuff for exchanges has its own folder and its own hyphenation scheme: 520-qwerty-space, Rainbow-green-enviropony-Guardian, songflash-Zdenka-JiangCheng, WBEX-2020_Guardian, YT-2018_Guardian-naphyla. (The naming scheme isn't consistent between exchanges, but is consistent within the exchange.)
As for the system, well, it works – when browsing the folder for the fandom, I can tell that e.g. namemagic and heisenberg-power are WIPs I've put aside for lack of knowing how to continue them. But most of the filenames aren't suitable as fic titles. The closest I've come is spaceshiprental, but that wasn't that apt for the actual fic, and then there's stuff like hallowsbutt. And bonus points if anyone can figure out what the fic whose filename "script" was is called!
china_shop's title meme, tinny commented on her temp titles and how she kept some of them. Now, I LOL'd at that when imagining my own temp titles – I only really scramble for a title at the last minute, so before that, the only title is the filename. And those tend to be quite literal. angstproposal, swtempdeath, twinroleswap, etc. Sometimes there's prefixes to categorize the things together: yz-hallowstheft, fsfeb-yqzh-geese, bal-lqsy-electricity. Sometimes the filename does contain something related to the fic concept, but which isn't that prominent in the actual finished product: goldencoreloss. Stuff for exchanges has its own folder and its own hyphenation scheme: 520-qwerty-space, Rainbow-green-enviropony-Guardian, songflash-Zdenka-JiangCheng, WBEX-2020_Guardian, YT-2018_Guardian-naphyla. (The naming scheme isn't consistent between exchanges, but is consistent within the exchange.)As for the system, well, it works – when browsing the folder for the fandom, I can tell that e.g. namemagic and heisenberg-power are WIPs I've put aside for lack of knowing how to continue them. But most of the filenames aren't suitable as fic titles. The closest I've come is spaceshiprental, but that wasn't that apt for the actual fic, and then there's stuff like hallowsbutt. And bonus points if anyone can figure out what the fic whose filename "script" was is called!