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Tag: opening
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Quotation Inspiration #007: Dostoyevsky asks a good question for all of you with writer’s block
Dostoyevsky asks a good question for all of you with writer’s block: Try this: Choose a year of your life (by date, grade, year of university, year of marriage) and focus on one event of that year. Use it as a springboard to a new piece of writing!
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Prologue Trick from Lisa Unger and Michael Slade and…
To some editors and many readers that “P” word, “prologue,” is almost a swear word. Piles of readers skip over prologues to get to “the meat” of the story. Some editors HATE them. But…what if your story needs one? Here’s a strategy used by Lisa Unger in Beautiful Lies: October 25th, 1972 There were times…
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Zoom in for a great opening…like Jennifer Landels’ “Allaigna’s Song” !
If you’re looking for a great way to start your next piece of writing, think Hollywood and ZOOM IN, like Jennifer Landels does in her serialized novel, Allaigna’s Song. Take a look at the opening from the first excerpt published in Pulp Literature: If you walk down the grand staircase of Castle Osthegn, you will…