Usually, a blog headline has something to do with the body of the whole thing. We learned that back in J-school.
Such as: F**k you!
Now that I have your attention, please read the rest of this.
Which has nothing to do with anything, so I will alert you in advance, this blog item is about dangling modifiers.
Nasty stuff, that.
I have a couple of buds who don't write but are amazed that I do, or can. I actually realized long ago that "you" has three letters in it, and was thus rewarded with a cum laudical degree from the university.
State University.
It came around that somebody asked me how I decided what my story would be about and I said, it's about the absurdity of life. Everything is a joke if it doesn't ruin your carpet or bankrupt you.
Optionally, graveyards are either fun for frolics or something else.
I wrote a story that has been alternately titled Gone With the Wind, Grapes of Wrath or just ... Fairfield. I will come up with something better eventually. I don't want to share much about it but it's a zombie thriller with real live dead zombies that came back to life because they wanted to have fun again.
But it is about graveyards and the peculiar events that can happen in a paranormal story that make the whole process of crossing over a quite human event. That is because it was written by a human.
People are what make stories. It's what they are about and it's who they are intended to reach.
We live in a world now that is lubricated by ridiculous headlines.
Start from the back and work forward. The headline should make sense at that point.
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