The sun rose on the beanfield

[venta]

The ladies' toilets here have had some kind of plumbing disaster. Sysadmin #1 (he gets all the good jobs) has done preliminary investigation, and determined the cause, and is trying to locate a plumber.

How'm I going to explain to a plumber that it's very important that s/he doesn't disturb Dr Smith's home behind the U-bend ?

There was concern earlier in the week that Dr Jones had vanished, and his web been taken over by a new spider, as yet unnamed. However, he seemed to be back yesterday. onebyone suggested the little unnamed spider was websitting.

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[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

By the way, I was just wondering: Do you come up with the lyrical titles to your posts before you write them, or after? Do you find it easy, or do you sometimes think "urgh, can't think of a lyric"? Is there always some connection between the lyrics you select and the content of the post?

I think if I tried to do this every time I wrote a post, it would have a similar effect to the naming of NPCs. You know, when you write the background, history, personality, appearance, and so on - but can't come up with a good/appropriate name?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Do you come up with the lyrical titles to your posts before you write them, or after?

A mixture. I remember humming Battle of the Beanfield a while back, and musing that it might be relevant if I found one day that the cleaner had hoovered up the Spiders' homes.

Often it's a case of writing the post then racking my brains for a lyric. Very occasionally I resort to google, but that always feels like cheating. Sometimes there's no connection - this morning's post about Lou Reed had as its title an Apollo 440 lyric that was irrelevant, but happened to go past on my headphones as I was typing.

I actually don't regard myself as all that good at lyric selection - a friend of mine habitually uses lyrics as email subject lines, and quite often I'm jealous of his ability to find very apt lines.

Maybe I should include a "did you get it?" checkbox every time the lyric is relevant to the post it titles :)

it would have a similar effect to the naming of NPCs.

I'm actually not familiar with this idea - I've never uderstood why people think naming characters is so tricky. I acted as NPC-name-generator in one campaign I played in: the GM hated thinking up names, so often told us about the NPC and let me suggest a name.

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

I've had less trouble naming NPCs recently, I think. But I've come to a stage where I don't go for names that are extremely outlandish - I tend to go for real-life-sounding names more often than not.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Please note I never said I was good at naming things, merely prolific :)

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

Hah! You should see some of the names I have come up with for gods...

[triskellian]

You've got to be better than the combined might of me and secretrebel - I'm terrible at coming up with names in general (and can't do surnames at all), and she degenerates to calling them things like 'Brick' after a while ;-)