: Help creating a name for a series I am writing a series and need help creating a name for them. An example of what I am looking for would be something like Cassandra Claire's Mortal Instruments

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Since your book is about a young girl coming to understand the world they way it is (which sounds much like a coming-of-age story for a teen or pre-teen, or perhaps a coming-to-adulthood story for an MC in their 20's); I suggest you focus on a metaphor for learning or transition. The Twilight series is for a character metaphorically transitioning (from girl to a woman in love) and invokes a physical transition that was particularly apt for a vampire story.

Your story seems to be an education/transition story also (no problem, a million stories are, including my own). Key words are Understanding, Awakening, Education, Discovery, and so on. Seasonal transitions work, Springtime, Fall, Winter. Negative transitions: Destruction, War, Death. Positive transitions: Birth, Redemption.

Look for poetic and interesting words to talk about transition that also resonate with some element of your story. I am not making specific suggestions, this site is not for telling you what to write, but how to write. So there is a compass direction for you, a way to think about your series title.

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The format would matter first and foremost. Is this a series of books ala Harry Potter...or something "serialized" where the reader only is given the story one bit at a time over time? For extended novels I think a dramatic title is warranted say...."the Dark and the Damned" or "The Wizened and the Wicked." For something serialized you would want something brief...preferably a single word say "Tartus" or "Black Anthem" and then "rote" from there. Since the Battle between Good and Evil never ends there really is no "end" to the amount of story to be told and being it is told purely through the Mind's Eye I would say just write and then see if a title jumps out at you.

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After a quick google search I found this website with tips on how to get started on creating name ideas for a book. Also, you could name your book after a key theme in your book i.e demon wings as the story centers around the demon who wants to earn his wings.

I find that book and essay titles come to me after writing a first draft and picking out themes that run through the book and playing around with words related to the theme. Maybe try putting related words into a hat and picking a few out at random to create a combination until you find one you like? I can't tell you what to name your story. Just give you advice, and there is plenty of it on google.

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