That’s a Good Name

This isn’t a new idea of mine, you see, as I have been thinking about it since high school, but what if I started a lit journal? Nowadays, it would be an online lit journal, but in the back of my mind I can hear M.M. Carrigan over at Taco Bell Quarterly yelling that I should just do it.

And I might…

But that’s not why I am here. (Though I could always use the unsolicited encouragement.) The reason I bring all of this up is that, besides figuring out what the mission of the lit mag would be (It needs to be original, like, the only place to get whatever it is that I will showcase,) but most importantly is to come up with a name that stick in people’s minds, and encapsulate whatever it is that I am selling. Now, logically, I need to come up with the mission or purpose statement first as that will make it so much easier to find a name… Yeah, but that’s not a whole lot of fun.

What I am reminded of is when I was in a terrible, just awful punk/blues/jam band, and all the hours in rehearsal we’d spend rockin’ out, and then yelling possible band names at each other;

No Refund, Lost Weekend, Areola, Bacon on the Side, Webbed Toes… You get the idea.

Now, I don’t want to sound too much like a grandpa 90’s punk, but it should still have a literary name, but with an edge… like…

Poochie

Inked Well

The Blurb

Atmost

Humph

Dead Spot

Dead Cart

Mark Two

And then the title might need a good one liner to follow up, like…

“Nothing But Illustrious Writers”

Or

“It’s Norse for Quality”

Or

“Putting Your MFA to Use”

So, you can see, this has been a fun mind walk of an… Oh!

Mind Walk (That’s a good one…)

Anyway, you can see this has been a fun exercise in…

Ellipses (Ah… maybe not…)

Point here people is that making an online lit journal might not be the easiest thing, but picking out a name is a good way to kill an hour of writing time.

(And all these journal names are copyrighted by me, Matthew Groff, 2024. Can’t use it unless you get permission or pay me.)

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