Titles for fiction?

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Hello all,

I have a question; how do you come up with titles for the stuff you write? What do you think makes a good title for a story or a novel? I'm working on various bits of short fiction, and a lot of my titles are either song lyrics (I'm finalising a story called Heaven Help Us, which was loosely inspired by a song of the same name, and I have another piece in the pipeline also inspired by a song, which may end up being named after the song too), or one-word titles (Heartfelt, Timbuktu, for example). A friend suggested that one-word titles aren't necessarily good, and that ideally you want something that grabs the reader's attention and gets them interested, without giving too much away, so I guess I need to work on my titling skills.

Any thoughts?