A title should be catchy. It should grab the perspective reader"s attention. It should be interesting. Something that will make them stop what they're doing and want to read more!
Are you kidding me?! As if me taking the thoughts swirling in my head, putting them on "paper" and posting it for the eyes of strangers isn't stressful enough! Now I have to make it appealing and eye-catching, Help!
All I want to do is write. Write for me. Write for therapy. And sometimes even write for you. But most of the time I get so bogged down in the details that I give up before I even begin. It's hard to put myself out there and open up for possible judgement and criticism. It's hard to have thoughts that I know may just be the disease creeping in (by the way, if you haven't read other posts, I have been diagnosed with MDD) but I know I have to get it out before it eats me alive.
I write for me. I write for therapy. I write because if I don't, I feel I will soon become extinct. And yet, when I'm done, I have to jazz it up for the readers. It's a little exhausting in a way I never thought would be. It's causing a sense of writers block and a lot of fear. I'm scared to dream and think and feel, because if I can't write about it afterwards, where does it go? No where. It's just sits in my head and festers for years until the ultimate breakdown. So here I am. Letting it out. Writing it down and posting it for judgement and criticism.
But before I end this, let me think of a good title to catch your eye...
Like you, I keep a running journal of sorts on the notes app on my phone. I have so many entries that I gave up giving them titles. My titles didn't need to be catchy, I just wanted them to serve as a quick reminder ot the main point of my current rambling. If you scroll the titles of the entries on my app, you will see the evidence of my surrender... Fear, Broken, Dreams/Nightmares then mostly Write, Write 1, Write 2, Write it, Write 5, etc. Just keep writing!