Though I do think that titling a novel while it is still a work-in-progress, if doing so doesn’t distract a writer, can help that writer conceive of the symbolic value of the work that is already underway and that will precipitate itself into the future not only by way of the writer’s technical ability but also through the more fanciful and intuitive aspects of their talent, even if the writer understands that the title they have chosen might be something of a placeholder, and thus be subject to change.