Do you title your chapters?

[Aidan of the tavern]

So while I was having breakfast this afternoon I ended up thinking (randomly as usual) how a large proportion of the books I'm reading or have read don't have chapter titles, with obvious exceptions like Rowling and Tolkien. Up to now I've given my chapters titles just for the sake of it, I was wondering if you do? Are there any particular pros and cons to naming chapters?

 

[Ireth]

It varies from story to story. My fanfictions all have titled chapters, but so far none of my novels do. I like titles because they give hints about what's to come in the chapter, but I find it can be hard to choose something succinct.

 

[Devor]

This has been discussed at length before.

http://mythicscribes.com/forums/wri...you-title-your-chapters-just-number-them.html

Take a look, there's already a lot of good points there if you go through the thread. There's no rules against necromancy on this forum so you could even take the discussion there.

 

[TGNewman]

Breakfast in the afternoon????

Yes it depends on what I'm right. I do like having titles, but if I cannot get one to fit in with what I am writing, then I will more likely then not just number them all the way through.

 

[Kelise]

Since there's already a thread on this one, I'll close this so all conversation can happen in the one place