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Originally Posted by DNSB
No, I may shorten the title to a number and the chapter title but I keep the numbers. I've seen too many book where the chapter titles repeated. As an example, the chapter title was the point of view character for that chapter so the chapter titles are repeats of the POV characters' names.
I.e.
Chapter 1: Simon
Chapter 2: Aaron
Chapter 3: Simon
Chapter 4: Aaron
Chapter 5: Simon
...
Epilogue: Aaron
Not to mention that remembering chapter 17 is a heck of a lot easier than remembering "When the old man came back to the mountain" (real world example). That book I have unfond memories of since the original chapter titles were a graphic with the chapter number centered above the chapter title and the graphic filename being IMGxxxxxx.png. This left the author with manually entering the chapter number/title in the various TOCs and redoing them anytime a change was made. My contribution to that work in progress was adding title="text string" to every header with a graphic so most of the work was done by the computer as is only right and proper. Well, that and convincing the author there was nothing wrong with making her life easier.  |
Yeah, your Simon and Aaron example and the chapter 17 are good reasons to keep them.