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(I will warn you now that some of the ideas and topics of my book are a little frightening)
Alright! Ever since I finished the rough draft of my WIP I realized that I dont have the most important part. The title. People will ask me all the time, “Whats it called?” And I have to say I dont know 🙂 Lol! I am struggling to come up with a name so if you have any ideas, they will be appreciated!
But if you want to, I would gladly take any title suggestions! The only thing I would like, is it to be not used by any other author (Like I thought “Uprising” was good but thats taken).
Heres a few excerpts of my book 🙂 This below is mainly the whole reason that the ‘Apocalypse’ starts. No power.
Scientists and the government launched a moon into the sky. Not just any moon, a moon that absorbed energy and had wires connecting down to earth. The reason for the launch was to have more power on earth, also to make electricity cheaper, stop putting wind turbines and power plants up around the world and make car charging stations charge faster. All went well and as planned until this week when the news came out saying the moon is bringing electricity down to earth faster than we can use it. The result can mean a power shortage. No more electricity.
I dont know if this will help, but this quote pops up a lot.
It Is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
And the excerpt from my book.
Shauna Sarah Smith, a fourteen year old girl who lives in Windy Pines. She is an average girl with two older brothers in a small neighborhood tucked in the woods. Therese hardly any people that they dont know. One morning before school, someone breaks into their house and tries to kidnap their Mom, only to be chased out by her brothers. That incident put everyone on edge. Then their parents receive a letter in the mail that they refuse to even speak about and makes their Mom cry like someone is dying, and their Dad more angry than usual. Everyone is in panic, when more letters come out. The missing toll skyrockets and even close neighbors start to disappear.
One usually dark night, someone breaks into the Smith household and takes the parents. The kids get ahold of a frightening letter. from A local C.H.I.M.E. facility in their town. They took the parents to “help participate in our new administrative experiments with the C.H.I.M.E. facility located in Bermill.” What does C.H.I.M.E. mean and why do they need people? (Im going to speed it up here)
The kids set out to find them, and an EMP happens (Electromagnetic pulse) and all the power goes out. Now forced to walk on foot to Bermill, they start the looooong journey (It takes them 16 days.) 16 long, terrifying days of being hunted, people going crazy and a new danger at every turn.
When they finally reach C.H.I.M.E. they figure out what horrors lurk behind the walls and no ones life is ever the same again.
The overall message is something like, “Do your own research and dont always believe the information handed right to you.” and “Its better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all” and this quote…
“When I need a reminder that God has truly blessed me,
I look at my friends and family
And know at once that they are a blessing indeed, and proof that
While I may not have been given all I want
I have all I really need.”
Also the kids have to learn to survive with no power, gather and save as many people as they can to overtake C.H.I.M.E.
And to make this post even more ridiculously long XD heres a list of old titles that fits the book, but either taken or I stopped liking them.
- Uprising
- Before the War
- Unavoidable future
- Indisputable
- Dystopia
I hope that gives all the information you need, I have never really done this before 🙂
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That sounds really cool!
One question, how does the moon providing electricity faster than it can be used cause a power shortage?
Unfortunately, I’m really bad with titles. None of my stories have names yet. So I won’t be much help, sorry?
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📚 Appreciator of BooksWould it make more sense for there to be a huge demand for power? Below is a piece of an artical I found that explains. Thanks for asking because I came up with idea… 3 years ago? And there are a ton of plot holes XD Hopefully this answers your question!
Whenever there is an overall demand for electrical energy that surpasses the capacity and supply, the system is strained as it struggles to meet the demand. If the demand increases to the breaking point, there is an overload, and the power plant can’t keep up, then the power goes out. Even worse, when the power goes out at one point in the system, the power outages can spread to other parts of the grid.
And thats ok! 🙂
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I’m also terrible with titles, but I have a couple ideas: Electric Moon or Moon Chimes
(lol I guess I got stuck on the moon part)
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I’m not very good at titles either XD
But I would say that you should make sure that is has connection with your book. As an example, the titles you mentioned having previously considered I would have a hard time remembering, because they could really belong to almost any book. So I would just say watch out for that.
Sorry I don’t really have any other advice :p
Any noun can become a verb if you don't care enough.
The demand wouldn’t increase because there was more. Electricity would become cheeper, because there’s more of it. You could have it so that all the power overloads the plants and destroys them that way instead maybe. Idk.
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📚 Appreciator of BooksHmm… I’m not that great at coming up with titles either… 😅
I have a foggy brain rn, but if I think of anything later I’ll definitely let you know. 🙃
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So…what exactly is C.H.I.M.E.? Like why are they taking people? (I understand if you can’t tell me…but one, I really have wanted to know ever since you told me about your book, and two…it might help me help you with the title!)
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LEFSE FOREVER!!!!!! <333I think I misunderstood your question a bit.
So like I said, if it is supplying electricity faster than they know what do with it, that would make it cheeper. In this scenario, you could have it overload the power stations and destroy it that way.
It would also work to have there be too much demand, but it seems like that’s unrelated to your original moon premise, and you would have to find a different explanation.
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📚 Appreciator of BooksHmmm…One of my favorite parts about writing is naming the book and it’s chapters, cuz it’s usually easy XD
- C.H.I.M.E. (I know, kinda obvious, but your story seems to mention it a lot)
My brain is not responding rn, so I’ll come back to this, but I honestly like using the name of your organization. It’s a neat acronym, and easy to remember.
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A few title ideas (idk if these are taken, but I hope not, LOL):
- Behind These Moonlit Walls (incorporates the moon part and the ‘finding out what’s behind the walls’ part)
- Under the Moon
- I agree that C.H.I.M.E. could work, so I do agree with @rae that it could be a title idea
- A Leap Into The Dark
I might be able to think of more, but there’s a couple ideas for you😁
I usually can name chapters fairly easily, and I like coming up with cool names, but I haven’t named any of my WIPs. Maybe it will be easier once they’re complete.
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📚 Appreciator of BooksSo, where does the moon get the energy from? And why wouldn’t it just be like, a satellite or something? What’s special about a moon?
I’m thinking maybe something with Lunar in the title? Lunar Overload..?
I kinda think Eclipse would be interesting, because it references the moon and basically, they’re having an electricity eclipse… I don’t know if that makes sense. So maybe something with Eclipse in it.
Also, what is the “moon” called by everyone? That could also work for a title… for example, my WIP is currently called Eidar because that’s the planet it’s set on (though I’m thinking about changing it).
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Sooo… I don’t have a specific title idea, but just a suggestion.
I don’t know if you’ve figured out what C.H.I.M.E. stands for yet, but the words in the title could each start with the letters from that word. It’d be one of those things where readers eventually notice and freak out. “Like WhAt?!?!?” (At least that’s what I would do XD)
I like the other suggestions that everyone else has come up with tho. 🙃
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Oh, I guess I misunderstood your question because thats exactly what happens, it overloads the power stations and destroy it that way. 🙂
I like those, thanks!!
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Behind the moonlit walls…. I like that… 😀
Thats ok, I’m still thinking of a name after 2 years XD
So the moon is like a solar panel, connected to the earth with wires so it dosent entirely drift away and the moon itself is called “Cruthine” though that name dosent pop up much in the story.
(I warn you its slightly disturbing!) C.H.I.M.E. stands for Changing Humans into Machines Expertly. (Not the most clever name but hey, I like the abbreviation, lol) They (The presidents daughter and employees) want to restart the world with certain people who will obey 😬 They take the people who resist and turn them into machines to work and run the world when its all changed.
Hope that answers all your questions! Thanks again for helping <3
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