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I'm writing a novel in Spanish. I plan on using a title in English. Is this pretentious?

>> No.10912404

What the title?

>> No.10912410

>>10912404
War's End

>> No.10912413

>>10912401
I'd call it more preposterous than pretentious
Why confuse people

>> No.10912418

don't do that

that is, don't write a novel in spanish

>> No.10912421

>>10912401
no publisher would ever let you do this

>> No.10912424

>>10912421
>caring about commercial success

>> No.10912425

>>10912410
>War's End
>War's End is a journalistic comic about the Bosnian War written by Joe Sacco. It contains two stories; the first, Christmas with Karadzic, about tracking down and meeting the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić, and the second, Soba, about contemporary artist from Sarajevo, Nebojsa Seric - Shoba, who was at the time student at Art Academy Sarajevo and member of local cult bend but he was drafted into army of Bosnia and Herzegovina because of the Siege of Sarajevo. Shoba currently lives and works in New York City. [1]

hmm

>> No.10912433

>>10912425
>comic
I'm still free.

>> No.10912461

>>10912424
>commercial success is the same as being published

>> No.10912466

>>10912461
>caring about external approval

>> No.10912470

>>10912401
do you have a good reason?

>> No.10912474

>>10912466
>caring about external approval is the same as being read

>> No.10912503

>>10912401
Not if your book is good.

>> No.10912524

>>10912410
I wouldn’t bother

>> No.10912527

>>10912524
Why?

>> No.10912536

>>10912410
When were you when war ends?

i was sat at home drinking brain fluid when fred rang

'war is end'

'no'

>> No.10912734

I would use Greek.

>> No.10914135

>>10912401
No, it's tacky.

>> No.10914142

>>10912401
Call it La fin de la guerra and write it in English.

>> No.10915032

>>10912401
It's stupid as fuck

>> No.10915229

>tfw my master plan is using a word that has meaning in internationally, but also bonus derived meaning in my language, and also a word that means nothing but it used throughout the novel as a mystery word

will my publisher let me do this?