Writers - How hard is it for you to give your story a title?

Here's an extract from a tip I just came across:

Finding a great title for your book can be one of the most challenging

yet satisfying processes you will go through. The title is the purpose of

your book and very important that it presents your book’s subject in the

best way possible. It needs to grab your audiences attention, make

them question and think and act by picking up the book and start

reading and eventually buy.

You’ll need to go through a series of questions, digging deep into the why, how, what

motivated you to write the book in the first place… then dialogue and become the ‘devils

advocate’ coming up with as many arguments, ahem, questions, as possible so we flush

out what the underlying concept is.

One way is to write down a bunch of possibilities and have people vote, another way is

to go through the manuscript looking for ‘themes’ and writing them down, also any reoccurring

words and then haul out the Thesaurus and create a whole other list.

Then, start creating phrases of 3-5 words, short preferable. Look at them over and over

and keep reworking them until you get what you want. Hopefully, there will be some

‘meat’ in the title to assist with the sell. And, of course, keeping in mind who the

audience is for you book. What are their interests, mind-set, demographic, etc that are

another part of the equation.

I don't spend much time at all thinking bout titles. I go with whatever title pops into my head first and then change it later if a better one comes to me.

BQ: I'd reckon that publisher had no idea what they are doing. That seems to indicate a rather careless approach to marketing. So no, unless the advance was I-just-won-the-fecking-lottery big.

I put the Characters initials into one word

Or i use word play - for example a story i have written is about spies and there are 7 main chapters (which are kind of long-ish) so i named it 'M.I.7 - What you don't see'

one of the harder parts to a story the hardest part for me is when i write a horror story and i have trouble killing off characters cause i get attached to them

Very easy. I usually title it when I have the synopsis down.

BQ: Uhm duh lol