New Fic: through the woods she carries you home (OUAT, Snow Queen Friendship, Dragon Queen)

 Title: through the woods she carries you home

Fandom: Once Upon a Time

Relationships and Characters: Snow Queen friendship, Dragon Queen romantic relationship (background), Lily is here and threatens Snow but I don’t know what to call that.

Words: 2,300

Summary: It would be moments before Regina bled out either way, and deep down Snow knew there wasn’t time for help to come, not unless help could find them in the middle of the woods, in the dark.

Notes: My eternal gratitude to @shinewithalltheuntold, who read this for me and seemed to think it was pretty decent and also pointed out possibly my worst typo yet. Remaining typos are my own fault (especially because I fiddled with this after she read it). My thanks also to @knightedrogue, who isn’t going to de-friend me just because I refused her excellent title suggestion: ‘Snow and Mal’s Totally Bogus Journey,’ which she made BEFORE I told her who the characters were in this fic, thus proving she’s clairvoyant. 

Read it: AO3 or FFN

As always, I tag the Queen of Dragon Queen: @oparu

 

Fic Titles

 graciecatfamilyband replied to your post: Tonight I’m going title hunting

Do you have a particular place you go where you’re likely to catch one? What kind of weapon or entrapment device do you use? Asking for a friend.* *The friend is me

So a lot of people like to use song titles, and I have nothing against using song titles and in fact am jealous of people who somehow find the right title or lyric to use for their fic title, but sometimes they’re evocative in the wrong way for me as I’m hunting down a title. That being said, one of my methods that uses song titles is as follows:

1. Look through a few dozen song titles and reject them all.
2. Hopefully, through the process of rejecting titles, find a few keywords from the fic or the idea of the fic that have come up in my brain to help me search for song titles that include those keywords.
3. Reject all those titles but write down a few.
4. Mix and match ideas from those titles and the keywords in my brain until I have something resembling a title.
5. Double-check with a trusted friend (optional step, sometimes I feel good enough about it and sometimes I need reassurance).
6. Spend another few minutes looking through song titles and rejecting them all.
7. Post.

The above method is how I got the title for  If I’d Known We Were Dating, I Would Have Baked a Cake and also kind of  It’s a Nice Day to Return a Wedding Dress (although that one was a lot easier because I had ‘Nice Day for a White Wedding’ stuck in my head the entire time I wrote the damn thing)

Alternately, if the fic is short enough and there’s one word or phrase that describes the fic well enough, I’ll just use that. (Mistexted or  In with the New)

ALSO, the shorter a fic is, the less thought I (try to) give to the title-hunting process as a sanity-saving measure.

A friend and I were joking around that it would be easier if we just put all of Taylor Swift’s song titles on shuffle and just used whichever came up next, no matter what the fic was about. That is also a legitimate method, btw, so don’t think that we’re mocking anyone who uses TS titles because honestly? They’re great titles!