By: Shoshanna

Shoshanna — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:02:50 +0000

Garbriel Garcia Marquez wrote breathless paragraphs. thus, there are no rules. Just has to make the reader want to read on.What other rule is there? Shambles? Is that codified somewhere?

By: The Stupidthing Collectors - Science Fiction Fantasy Chronicles: forums

The Stupidthing Collectors - Science Fiction Fantasy Chronicles: forums — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:40:10 +0000

[...] Originally Posted by Mastix In a strange old town, a town that was strange not in the usual way (well, rather, it was perhaps not that strange at all, in that it was strange for even a strange little town); a town that was filled with crooked little black houses with jarrah mantle pieces and red carpets, bear rugs and coats of arms; a town in which there was a great old proud house that stood just by the way in a cul-de-sac at the end of the street, a street that was jaded by the thick peppermint trees and weeping willows, and great oaks, and wasn�t visited upon by anybody but the occasional limousine with tinted windows, a boy stood. In front of a house. That proud house. The Vitriole mansion. Mastix, I’m going to be cruel to be kind. This is a shambles. A reader reads much as s/he would speak, so readers really do get virtually breathless if you force them to read a whole paragraph before they hit a full stop. And this is your first paragraph. The very first thing a reader hits when they come to your story, and you’re already making them exhaust themselves. Here is how to fix it: How to write the killer opening paragraph. � Hello Spacegirl [...]

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By: Shoshanna

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