The title, or the article?
As I was hopping all over JU the other day, reading various blogs, some of the titles were very clever. I found myself wondering where the titles come from. Some of them were very appropriate... others seemed forced (and sometimes unrelated) to the topic.
Here is a random poll. Do you write your article first and THEN title it? Or do you think of a title immediately, as soon as you decide what your article's topic is? Perhaps some of both? Do you consciously think of how your title can make or break the article and select one in light of that?
As for me, I generally come up with an idea for an article... and throw something in the title box right away. Once the article is written, I often find that I've thought of a title that I like much better and I change it. Other times, my first instinct is right on (according to MY brain, anyway... hehe) and I leave it alone. Most often, the article comes first, and an appropriate title is born from the article itself.
So how about it? How does this process work when YOU write?