We’ve established what a title should be and we’ve also established your title is your selling tool. So if it can make or break sale of your story, then we’ll have to agree that it is extremely important. How much emphasis have you placed when selecting a title?

1)You can’t write a story before titling it, so you jotted down first thing that came to mind.

By now you should have an idea that your theme has to reach its conclusion just as your story does. But our theme has to do more than reach its conclusion – it has to be reinforced in end and by doing this, it will strengthen all that we have said in our story.

So if we took a theme…

‘Persist and in end you will succeed’

And I showed my character working hard to achieve his goals, persisting, even if at times those goals seemed unreachable, then I would’ve showed that all his hard work did pay off in end. By having him succeed, it would reinforce theme that had been running throughout story.

Let me further illustrate this point by giving you a more detailed example.

The theme is…

‘Persistence pays off’

The story is about a writer, who has been writing short stories for years, but has not succeeded in getting published yet.