Those of you who write: how do you come up with a good title?

Those of you who write: how do you come up with a good title?
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Most of the time I don’t. I am utterly crap at coming up with good titles. Ugh. But when I do come up with a winner, it’s because I wrote the whole story and then looked through it for a catchy word/phrase that summed up or at least spoke to the overall point of the piece.
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