I ticked in the boxes before reading the justifications and broadly agree with what you're saying. To me the front runner from that list is probably "the word forge" as it conjures an image of taking a rough project and working on it to completion, which "molten"/"burnished words" doesn't necessarily do. At the same time it doesn't conjure a misleading literal image like "hot metal type" could. The addition of "web" on the end of "word works web" makes it sound like a long-established small printer trying to crack into the internet without knowing how it works. "Burnished words" sounds pretentious to me and makes it sound like you'd pay much more attention to design than less glamorous tasks of proofreading and editing, and "Hot metal type" sounds a bit Shoreditch-trendy. "Molten words" does sound good but (as you say) it can convey an impression that you'd lose interest in the words once they start cooling down - i.e. at the necessary and tedious fine revision and conclusion stage.
That's just what I thought, for what it's worth. I hate finding names for this kind of thing. I generally go for abstract/unrelated names which have some kind of personal and/or family connection. A middle name, village where your ancestors come from, that kind of thing; they've been good for me.
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Date: 2010-03-19 01:32 pm (UTC)That's just what I thought, for what it's worth. I hate finding names for this kind of thing. I generally go for abstract/unrelated names which have some kind of personal and/or family connection. A middle name, village where your ancestors come from, that kind of thing; they've been good for me.