So many people had good replies to my letter “Working Titles” that I felt like I had to write a followup letter, “Title Matters,” which attempts to catalog some of the different methods for titling work: combining and rearranging key words, outright theft, bibliomancy, random chance, etc. 

I’m having trouble coming up with a good title for my next book, so I’m taking heart today that Eric Carle’s classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar started out as:

Lots of digging and scratching.

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