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 - //**[[offtopic:Petike]]'s advice:**//\\
-Choose the name of your timeline or story //carefully//. There's nothing more annoying than picking up a generic-sounding or cliché-sounding name for your writing project. You do want your readers to be able to differentiate your story from other stories immediately, and not spend a whole minute pondering whether this story is the same or different than a very similarly named story. Therefore, one particular area I'd like to advise against are "push-button titles". These are titles based on tired paraphrases of a popular idiom or an existing name template. They occur both in AH fiction and more general fiction. Some //notorious examples// of lazy push-button titles, out of many:\\
+Choose the name of your timeline or story //carefully//. There's nothing more annoying than picking up a generic-sounding or cliché-sounding name for your writing project. You do want your readers to be able to differentiate your story from other stories immediately, and not spend a whole minute pondering whether this story is the same or different than a very similarly named story. Therefore, one particular area I'd like to advise against are "push-button titles". These are titles based on tired paraphrases of a popular idiom or an existing name template. They occur both in AH fiction and more general fiction. Some //notorious examples// of lazy push-button titles on AH.com, out of many:\\
 - "Fear, Loathing and... [something, something]" (Hunter S. Thompson reference)\\
 - the use of the word "Camelot" in Kennedy-related US political/biographical timelines\\