A Good Title Is Hard to Find

A great title is the hulking stevedore of your work—it does the heavy lifting and makes your writing life easier. But finding that great title is another thing altogether. How do you boil down an entire novel, memoir, short story, essay, or even poem into a few puny words? In this class, we’ll look at different approaches for titles, look at examples and the elements that make titles great, and work on exercises that you can use immediately in your own work. Open to all genres.