/lit/ - Literature

>not off topic
How do you guys feel about making up words for a title? Like most books don't do it, but Mistborn isn't a word, not technically. Is it OK to make up a word used in-universe for a book title? I had my prof tell me that made up words are bad and people wouldn't know them therefore they wouldn't read your book. He said "that's not even a wordreally.. Your editor would tell you to change that"

>how do you guys feel about mixes of words or plays on words?

Like I feel like my professor was full of shit, because a lot of books use made up words.

>Eragon
>Mistborn
>Neverwhere
>fableheaven
>barsoom
>beyonders
>Discworld
>Elantris

I haven't read all of these. I'm just asking about the titles, is it bad to use a word that doesn't exist if its actually something from the story? Like what fuck am I supposed to say to my professor? I'm not a writer or anything, but I gave him the title "Incarnal" when talking about a hypothetical vampire book and he fucking roasted me for like no reason in front of the class. But it's like, carnal as in "flesh" so my line of reasoning was: he's not of mortal flesh (cause the MC would be a vampire) so maybe calling it "Incarnal" would be cool. This is for a hypothetical title, we were practicing writing essays with interesting titles and a good "hook" opening statement. Anyway is my professor full of shit? Are titles like Mistborn bad?

>>14159325
>showed us an example of her poetry
Jesus, when it comes to writing, the only course one should consider is English literature. The rest are unrespectable garbage.

>>14130098
>someone who's experienced love talks about "loneliness"