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Hi, everyone! Long time. 😃
So, the question is -- What made you choose that particular title for your story?
It is really weird actually, how I chose the title Bitter Sweet Symphony. And it's not any different from how I choose all the other story titles of mine.
First of all I'm not a plotter, I'm more of a pantser.
When a plot possess me, it is in the form of a general idea. Separate and random glimpses of twists and major scenes that I think will be awesome flashes through my mind all day and night. At some point, I think up what the opening scene will be, the ultimate hook. I don't write it down immediately, or if I want to I just write a few lines that I don't want to forget later.
Then I let things cook in my mind, and listen to music, I love songs... all kinds of songs -- old and new and anything. And while the story is cooking in my mind, I also find myself focusing on a particular song... the one that I can't get out of my mind no matter how much I try. Like ringing in the ear they stay always. The lyrics tug at my heart, and I don't want to let go of it, I keep the title of the song, I soak in the theme and pour it down into my stories.
That's why all my stories have titles of songs.
I completely depend on music while I write. Tune and words become one, separating them is impossible.
I know the lyrics don't match the story's real theme entirely, but it's the emotions that matters more. We can always bend and break words and meanings of them.
That's how I named Bitter Sweet Symphony, the new version is Bitterly Sweetly. Undertone of the song is still there, weaving is still going on, I don't know when I will be satisfied enough to stop it.
So, that's it.
I know it's quite a long answer. But hell will freeze over when I will learn to speak less. 😆
Brilliant idea this thread is. 👏
Hat's off to who asked this question and my insanely tight hugs to the brain from where it came. 🤗
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