Title Help

Good morning, Ladies.

This is not your official post for today. That will hopefully come this afternoon -- and thank you, thank you, thank you for doing so great while I've been sick. (I thought only little kids got ear infections . . .  I need a blankie and a thumb!) 

This post is here to see if I can get some titling help from you. I'm developing a tween fiction trilogy on bullying, each part of the continuing story told from a different point of view -- book one, bystander, book two, bullied, book three, the bully.  The publishing team and I are trying to come up with titles that reflect "tween vocabulary" and somehow hint of the  theme of the book. For the Bystanders Book we're thinking, "SO Not OK!" and for the Bully Book we're pretty much settled on "Sorry I'm Not Sorry", but we're struggling a bit with Book Two, the Bullied Book.

In this book, the bullied girl finally starts to get that she doesn't have to take meanness off the RMG (Really Man GIrl). In really little kid language that would be "You're Not the Boss of Me!" but that isn't sophisticated enough for tweens, who try to copy what teens are saying. 

Which is why I turn to you. What would be slang for that message? How would you or your friends or people you know who were fed up with it express that in a title-length phrase?

I need lots of suggestions so if you have any, please bring 'em on . . . and the sooner the better. Just think:

        Title . . .  slang . . .  message: you're not the boss of me

If you can't come up with one but somebody else makes a suggestion you really like, feel free to "vote."

I can't promise the publisher will publish anything we come up with, but they do want to know what you think. Thanks for doing this. See you later today I hope.

 

Blessings,

Nancy Rue P.S. Thank you for your prayers. They seem to be working!

         

Comments

[bulletsoul]

Oh boy..well, I'm having a hard time thinking of anything that's not profanity because that's usually what I hear from tween or teenage kids who are sick of being bullied. And obviously, we can't title the book with cuss words. Sooo, maybe something like..You Don't Own Me? I don't know.

[JennaT]

Hope you get better Mrs.Rue:)

Here's some ideas,IDK!
"Step back, I'm standing up!"
"Back off, Back down"

I don't really know anything for "Your not my boss!"

sorry!

JennaT

[bulletsoul]

I like "Step back, I'm standing up!"

[Margaret]

I guess I would say something like, "It's my life, so back off" or something similar. I'm not very good at standing up for myself so I don't really know. "Not Your Problem" is sort of different than what you would say to a bully, though. Sometimes people say "Get a life" but that's kind of rude. You could also do something like "Free to be me" but that's not slang. Or just "Leave me alone."
I'll let you know if I come up with anything else worthwhile! Hope I helped!

[Katie]

I hear the phrase "That's Not Even Funny" a lot. Like you could say, "she so good at math, it's not even funny." I think that would be something a girl could say to a bully in a serious way, too.

[*Rachel*]

A lot of times, I'll hear things like "get off my case" or "get off my back" when my friends and I talk about stuff like that... not sure how you could work that into a title, but I know that's something I hear a lot!

[Marlee]

I like back off, or the ones Rachel posted, or that's not even funny. I would also suggest as one that is less about standing up to the bully, which I don't think is all that common, could be I'm so done or I'm so over this for someone tired of being bullied

[*Olivia* :)]

If your going for a christian theme here, Ila and I came up with, " I Bow to God, Not to You" not really slang but....:)