NaNoWriMo – Found My Plot – Need a Title

What is my title and how did I find it? I haven’t decided on mine yet. I haven’t even decided on my novel’s title yet, let alone the chapter titles! yet. Right now all I’ve got is “NaNoWriMo Day One”; “NaNoWriMo Day Two”; etc.

I like to pick out my novel title before my chapter titles, so they’ll “match”. On my profile page it says “Bela Lugosi Fan-Fic” and on my banner in my siggie it says “Dracula Lives Next Door”, but neither is the title of my novel.

As stated in my profile title my story is about Bela Lugosi, who 60 years after his death, has moved into an abandoned house next door to 3 kids, only he’s using the name from one of his movies: Dr Laouse. Dr. Laouse was a character who in the movie turned out to be Dracula masquerading as a mad scientist. The kids, now suspect that Dr Laouse, is in fact the actor Bela Lugosi, and that he’s not dead, because he really is the real Dracula, thus explaining why he could play the part so well in the movies.

Anyways, as of yet, it is untitled, because while I’m good at coming up with this whole idea, I’ve yet to think of what to call it. I made a banner for it last night (which is the one in my sig) and when I got to the point of adding a title, I panicked and wrote the first thing I could think of, which as it turned out was “Dracula Lives Next Door”, which is pretty lame, but for the sake of NaNoWriMo serves the goal of telling what the book is about.

Eventually, at some point while I’m writing, one of the characters will say something and I’ll scream – That’s it! That’s my novel’s title! And than I’ll have to change my banner again, but so far I’m without a title.

Any ideas about what I should call it?

Usually when I’m naming chapters I’ll take a phrase out of the chapter itself and use it for the title. As a general rule, I don’t even start thinking about chapters until AFTER I’ve finished the first draft. Than creating titles becomes part of the editing process.

All Hail Bela Lugosi!

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