burnpsy Posted December 13, 2011 Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 Had no idea where to post this, so I defaulted to General. I've been writing something (some of you know exactly what it is), but coming up with a decent final title is being troublesome. [spoiler=The Synopsis Itself Is A Massive Spoiler] 99 years ago, under the orders of the world's Goddess, a mad scientist altered the DNA of all animals in the world, giving them the same cognitive ability as humans, a longer lifespan, and superpowers. One of these is the protagonist's father, a turtle who can (among other things) read what people will be thinking in the future. 20 years ago, as the Goddess had planned, he learns of an incoming alien invasion. He, however, will not be anywhere near strong enough to fight the threat alone, and nobody believes him, so he sets up a secret plan, which amounts to acting as if he has been murdered by a terrorist group in front of his yet-to-be-born son, who has total control over magnetism, in a ploy to make him become strong enough and have enough allies to successfully ward off the threat. When checking to see if his plan would work, he checks what friends his will have, and sees a fairly-balanced [url="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FiveManBand"]Five-Man Band[/url] that has glaring weaknesses, so he proceeds to essentially pull [url="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WifeHusbandry"]Wife Husbandry[/url] five times simultaneously on their behalf without their knowledge (He makes the girls only mentally capable of loving their planned partner, and essentially molds each of them into their respective partner's ideal girl.), finding them each counterpart that covers their weakness. The story will be from his son's point of view as the plan plays out. [/spoiler] So far, the ideas being worked with are the title I've been using as a working title, [i]Turtle of Infinity[/i], as well as [i]Forced Hearts[/i], based on the end of the second paragraph of that synopsis. Someone also recommended [i]A Shell Game[/i], which I'm thinking would work better as a subtitle and not an actual title. So, YCM, what do you think I should do with the title? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Rai Posted December 13, 2011 Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 Turtles All the Way Down: A Shell Game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down edit: Apparently, actually game rather than plan, referring to random drug stuff. Sounds fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burnpsy Posted December 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 Just noticed I mistyped. The suggestion I noted from before was A Shell Game, not A Shell Plan. [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_game"]http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Shell_game[/url] In any event, that title is... very interesting. I didn't get it until I looked at that link, but now I do. That does look rather interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Rai Posted December 13, 2011 Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 "The Shell Game" sounds more assertive than "A Shell Game". I don't know, but that's what it's like to me and 'The' sounds more natural for a title. Unless you want it to be intentionally open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burnpsy Posted December 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2011 [quote name='.Rai' timestamp='1323819094' post='5704869'] edit: Apparently, actually game rather than plan, referring to random drug stuff. Sounds fun. [/quote] Shell games are generally a trick gambling game where you place something under a cover, and bring in two or more identical covers with nothing underneath, then shuffle them around at a fast speed, asking whoever is gambling which cover it hiding the item. Sleight of hand can be used to be fradulent with this quite easily. There are a few flash games based on this. Case in point: [url="http://www.2flashgames.com/f/f-1362.htm"]http://www.2flashgam...om/f/f-1362.htm[/url] [quote name='.Rai' timestamp='1323820247' post='5704934'] "The Shell Game" sounds more assertive than "A Shell Game". I don't know, but that's what it's like to me and 'The' sounds more natural for a title. Unless you want it to be intentionally open. [/quote] Hmm... I'm thinking that leaving it open makes it more mysterious. Makes you wonder if there are more ploys like this going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunar Origins Posted December 14, 2011 Report Share Posted December 14, 2011 Fortune Shell. I suck at making names, but I'll make that pitch. I think "Shell Game" is probably one of the better titles, tbh. It'd work as a subtitle, too. There's no denying that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burnpsy Posted December 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 You see, using Shell Game as the primary title would cause too much confusion with the actual Shell Game, so I can't use it as the main title. That's why I'm relegating it to subtitle status. Fortune Shell, huh? Well, that... doesn't really seem to have much of anything to do with the work, really, aside from the powers of one guy who isn't even the main character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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