Comments on: Writing Excuses Episode 4: Beginnings

By: alexander baruta

alexander baruta — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:41:55 +0000

To the senses of something outside time, most focal points in history can go unnoticed; there may be nothing extremely spectacular about what most inhabitants of a planet consider a world shaking event.

what do you think of this as a first line?

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By: Darren Landrum

Darren Landrum — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:29:00 +0000

Well, this post is certainly a day late and a dollar short, but something just occurred to me, and I want to get it out there, on the off-chance that someone might actually run across this.

I have a recursive definition of a good first line: a good first line is a line that makes the reader want to know why that’s the first line. For example, in the first Mistborn book, the first line is “Ash fell from the sky.” This fits my definition, because now I, as the reader, have a question, “why is ash falling from the sky?”

It could be I’m off my rocker, but what the heck, eh?

By: Chris (The Book Swede)

Chris (The Book Swede) — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:06:43 +0000

Really like this podcast Just pimped it on the blog. I got a book to review the other day with a hook that I thought was brilliant.

It’s by Lauren Groff, from The Monsters of Templeton:

“The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace,the fifty foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass.”

Tres cool. Maybe you could do a show on names … or maybe not, now that I think of it, how would you approach the subject?! Could be difficult.

Best wishes,
~Chris

By: Mike Barker

Mike Barker — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:12:28 +0000

I’ve put up a summary of this episode at
http://mbarker.livejournal.com/62405.html

Hope it helps

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:52:46 +0000

What about prologues? That might be a can of worms, but I was hoping you would talk about it during the podcast and it never came up. When is a prolgue appropriate, and when is it extraneous?

By: Lauren

Lauren — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:24:29 +0000

Thanks for your help. I really enjoy these podcasts! Maybe I’ll get to meet some of you sometime since I live in Orem, UT.

Lauren

By: Matthew Bowman

Matthew Bowman — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:48:54 +0000

One problem with the transcript is that I am still completely unused to your voices and I have my own hearing problem regarding processing. I can get all your words, but sometimes the voices run together. However, I assume that one of you can put in the right names if I get them wrong or leave it blank.