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Not that I can think of, to be honest. I looked over my story list here and nothing stands out as having been a "title first" story. I tend to start with an idea or scene/fantasy, then find a title that fits the story as I write.
sprite
Her Royal Spriteness
Lizzy sent me one the other day - tentacle attack kitty. and of course i have to write a story about it!

You can’t truly call yourself peaceful unless you are capable of violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful. You’re harmless.
TangerineSky
Baked Orange
Scott, I feel you. Sometimes a scenario takes my interest more than anything. With the above two stories, I had the seed of an idea, and when I thought of the title, they bloomed into something pretty cool.


I can't decide whose story I want to read more, Sprite's or Verbal's
Buz
The Linebacker
I've done that.

This is one that came to me as l stood in line to check out at the grocery store. I thought the sign at the check out counter would be a great title. Then it made me think of a fraternity brother who had a thing for MILFs and often met them at the grocery store. I had built the storyline in my head by the time l got home with the groceries.

10 Items or Less

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/milf/10-items-or-less.aspx

Warning: My stories contain a lot of sex!
Verbal
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
Quote by Buz
I've done that.

This is one that came to me as l stood in line to check out at the grocery store. I thought the sign at the check out counter would be a great title. Then it made me think of a fraternity brother who had a thing for MILFs and often met them at the grocery store. I had built the storyline in my head by the time l got home with the groceries.

10 Items or Less

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/milf/10-items-or-less.aspx

Warning: My stories contain a lot of sex!


That's a great title. Queued it up.
ScreamQueen
living dead girl
Typically the title comes last for my stories

I think this is my only story where I had the title planned before the story

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/lesbian/the-road-to-anywhere-1.aspx

but even with that said I had a pretty good idea with what I wanted to do with it
I took some inspiration from the following things Alice in wonderland/Pulp Fiction/and myself
originally it wasn't a sex story I added that in for here, prior to that it was one long crazy adventure of a girl finding herself.


Usually I'll just randomly have a bit of dialogue in my head and I'll want to write something for it
plot/title and everything else comes after.

this is an example of that ( not that there is much plot, it was for the rumps micro flash ) It started with the carnival in her mouth dialogue
https://www.lushstories.com/stories/flash-erotica/karla.aspx

and this one started with the dialogue at the end

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/horror/-be-my-valentine--1.aspx
Unknown User
Quote by sprite
Lizzy sent me one the other day - tentacle attack kitty. and of course i have to write a story about it!


Sounds like a Syfy original movie (think Sharktopus). I'd like to see what you do with it. Probably better than what they would.XGkKrzpLmPJ7iNGy
Guest
Lurker
Oh, yes indeed.

Porn Again, Christian?

M.E.G.A.

Thunder Cunt

Serpenteen

Melissaphilia

Wilbur The Traveling Dildo Salesman

My After Wife
WannabeWordsmith
Writius Eroticus
Like vanessa26, my titles usually come last or midway through, inspired by some line in the story. Only two I can recall that started out title-first and were built around those concepts are the Flash pieces:

"Deprivation"
"Twelve Hours Earlier" (with audio for the vaguely interested)

Over one million views on my stories can't be wrong, so please dive in and browse my 148 stories:


* 32 Editor's Picks, 84 Recommended Reads.
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* 23 collaborations.
* A whole heap of often filthy, tense, hot sex.
TangerineSky
Baked Orange
Ping, I've read Porn Again, Christian, and the title was as clever as the story was hot. M.E.G.A was hilarious. Now I'm interested in those last three...

WW, I loved Deprivation. You had me at Dripping Underwear. Now I'm gonna read your other one.
Beffer
Rainbow Warrior
My EP winning story Arianrhod sprung from the title. A Wiccan friend of mine changed her name to Arianrhod, and I became fascinated with the background of the name (She's a Celtic Goddess), so I wrote a story set in the appropriate period in Wales about a mysterious and magical beauty with that name.

Band Camp also sprang from the title, as did my Rumspringa stories.
TangerineSky
Baked Orange
Quote by Wannabe Wordsmith

"Twelve Hours Earlier" (with audio for the vaguely interested)



Holy mother fucking fuckeddy fuck. Never told me you had a voice like boiling nails with the capability to titilate through cyber space. Fucking warn a girl, WW.
TangerineSky
Baked Orange
Quote by Beffer
Arianrhod


I'm curious how this is pronounced?
DarkSide
High Lord of Darkness
I usually think of stories and plots in my head, then the first thing I do afterwards is create the word document and write the title down. The idea normally comes first then the title, then the words.

I have written a story from a picture though. I came across a picture that was used for the story

Cooling Down

I just had to write the Flash to go with it. It's one of my favourites but hardly read.

I used to be a pervert. In here, I'm normal!

Watch this space...She is really - cumming soon!
laura
Mana wahine
Quote by TangerineSky



Just read it - and fuck, was that hot. Your voice is like candy?


Thanks babes. Call me. ;)
Beffer
Rainbow Warrior
Quote by TangerineSky


I'm curious how this is pronounced?



Just leave out the 'h' and emphasis on the first syllable.
RejectReality
Testing The Waters.
A big percentage of them. Hooters, Coming In Third, Jackin' Jill, Dip in the Lake, Taste of Sherry, A Sale of Two Titties, Merry Ex-Mas, Boned, Bet Your Bottom, Labor Day, Jerk... Just a few that were title first.

I've got a text file filled to the brim with wordplay titles waiting for a story to go with them. As often as not, there's a cover image mock-up ready long before the story as well.

I almost never go very far into a story without coming up with a title for it, if it doesn't spring from the title in the first place. It's something I personally need from the get-go. That's not to say that the title won't change during the writing process, but I need something I'm at least reasonably happy with before I get going. Character names are often determined by finding a way to play with a name in the title, as was the case with Dip in the Lake, Taste of Sherry, Paige From Her Diary, etc.

The title of your story is the most prominent feature. In some places, it's the only thing related to the story itself that people see. ( Competition listings ) A title that catches the eye and piques curiosity is critical, so I don't move forward without having a good idea already in mind.

Good Will ---|--- Three Alarm <= Both almost famous, give them a read and get them one step closer!
TangerineSky
Baked Orange
You make a fine point, RR. It's always interesting to compare how our minds work. Thanks for all the comments everyone. I'm gonna read all your stories.
farmerroger
The Bruiser
This one started with the title and it went from there. It’s the first part of series with second part published and further parts awaiting to be edited and being sent in for submission

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/threesomes/on-the-balcony-in-the-french-alps.aspx

For the past few months I’ve been using Instagram and been using the site to post my photography . Here’s the link to my profile 

https://www.instagram.com/farmerroger1/

My recommended read

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/love-poems/amongst-the-arabian-sands

here’s a link to my photography album in my media

https://www.lushstories.com/profile/farmerroger/media?album=2399646
farmerroger
The Bruiser
And then theres this poem that started with the title and it went from there. It also gained me first and still only Recommended read

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/love-poems/-amongst-the-arabian-sands-.aspx

For the past few months I’ve been using Instagram and been using the site to post my photography . Here’s the link to my profile 

https://www.instagram.com/farmerroger1/

My recommended read

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/love-poems/amongst-the-arabian-sands

here’s a link to my photography album in my media

https://www.lushstories.com/profile/farmerroger/media?album=2399646
Buz
The Linebacker
I was eating neapolitan ice cream when l came up with the idea of The Neapolitan as a story title for an interracial threesome tale. For months l played around the idea. The premise for the story finally developed. I had to research the slightly more time period l wanted for the setting. This story was quite a challenge and l absolutely loved writing it.

Once it came together and l posted it, the story proved to be more successful and popular than l envisioned.

My first ever Editor's Pick...

The Neapolitan

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/interracial/the-neapolitan.aspx

For you who have not read it, please give it a read. I hope you love it.
Unknown User
The title never comes first for my stories. I come up with a working title before I start writing but that then changes several times before the actual title pops out at me. Once I’m settled on a title, I go ahead and finalise the cover artwork then start polishing the story. I find that having a finished cover with a title focuses the final edit. Don’t know why.

Just as a side comment, my cover artwork is very often completed (except for the exact wording of the title) before a single word of the story is written. I like working with an image in mind.
Verbal
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
Quote by Saucymh
I find that having a finished cover with a title focuses the final edit. Don’t know why.

Just as a side comment, my cover artwork is very often completed (except for the exact wording of the title) before a single word of the story is written. I like working with an image in mind.


That's CRAZY cool. I have never heard of anyone doing this before! Very cool idea, I can see how it would focus you.


Another title I came up with before the story - People Who Bought This Item. It's about a couple on the phone with each other while buying sex toys on Amazon. smile. I'm pretty fond of the title. In fact, the title might be better than the story.
AbigailThornton
Orgasm Aficionado
When I was writing for magazines, I found that you sold the story based on a good pun in the title. Imagine there's a pile of pieces to wade through, if you can grab an editor's attention within the first half second, they know that a reader's eye will be drawn in the same way. The same is true for any internet reader these days, where they have to make a choice from an effectively limitless list.

Title is everything to catch a reader's attention, so it is something I give a bit of thought to.

I like swapping a letter to switch something everyday into something filthy - TV program 'Cash in the Attic' becomes 'Gash in the Attic' etc

I remember I wrote Fuck Biscuit after watching Stephen Fry's Planet Word about tourettes (well, coprolalia - the uncontrollable use of obscene words)




Alliteration is a favourite of mine for story titles, which is where the Pee Perverts ebooks and stories came from.

But I can write the other way round just as easily - a snippet of conversation sometimes outlines an interesting character who needs exploring and a universe to live in - eg Blaine in Seeing Red