The importance of a title
Can I ask your opinion please?
How about going from a serious post to a lighthearted one for balance and distraction?
In 6th grade, as a school project, I, along with a few fellow students, conducted a school poll to find out which musical band was more popular, the Beatles or the Monkees. Friends, can I tell you, I felt so important? Our grade was atwitter with strong opinions. In the end, the Beatles became the favorite, both in our small community and as history played out.Â
Aside from becoming a lifelong fan of the Beatles, I still get excited about the idea of a poll. And Substack makes it so easy. So here I am, many years later, asking excitedly, can I have your opinion?
The title of my newsletter gives potential new readers absolutely no idea what I write about, which is NOT optimal. I'm told I have 2 seconds to get that across before the reader scrolls on. Yikes. I'm keeping "Wayward Yogini," but I'm planning to swap "Tales of a" for words more accurately describing my posts.
Here are a few suggestions I've received, thank you
and for your suggestions.I would love your opinions. Or if you have a different suggestion, I’m all 👂👂👂. I’m inserting WY for Wayward Yogini as the poll app only allows for so many letters.
I’ll keep the poll up for one week. And like I said, if you’ve got other suggestions, please put them in the comments.
Have a great weekend.
I love that you're still trying to capture magic in a title. I don't think any of the choices are that much better than "Tales of." I wonder what would happen if you started with "A Wayward Yogini" and then added a verb ... wonders..., reflects..., pontificates (!)..., tattles..., confesses..., chuckles ..., dreams ..., wishes ..., predicts ..., foresees ..., wanders ..., remembers ..., giggles ..., gossips ..., lights a lamp ..., stirs a pot ..., ignites a fire ..., ... ... ... and so on.
Ah, Sue, you're going down the road I did a few weeks ago with my title. After some amazing suggestions I decided to keep Sage Sanctuary.
I happen to love your current title. As a writer you tell tales, you share wisdom, you tell stories. The wayward part of the title suggests to me that you're not perfect, that you've wandered off the path at times, and as a yogi, and more importantly as a reader, I relate to life being a journey where we meet ourselves at different junctures; sometimes veering off the path we thought we were on and then finding our way back.
Having said that, if you felt called to add something, what if you added Tales and Life Tips From a Wayward Yogini. Also, Joyce's flip of the title is is very intriguing.