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A good story may be given a bad title by its author, and so started toward failure. Novices are peculiarly responsibleliablepossibleable liable to this fault, usually through allowing themselves to be too easily satisfied. They go to finallimitedvastinfinite infinite pains to make the story itself fresh and individual, and then cap it with a commonplacebettermysterynovel commonplace phrase that is worse than no title at all. A good title is apt, specific, attractive, new, and short.