The opening chapter is the most important chapter in any book. It's like the first bite into a brand of frozen pizza you've never dared try before. Within seconds you know if you're going to venture into the rest of the thing or avoid it altogether and never recommend it to anyone else. And usually, there is no middle ground between those two outcomes. Love or hate. Your opening chapter determines it all. The article "4 Goals for a Novel's Opening Chapter" by Darcy Pattison ...
I let my writing be compromised. I always let my writing be compromised by editors and the like, I'm always revising and editing. But this time, it's different. I've never let anyone change the fundamental message, change the underlying thought behind the piece. Especially a personal piece not meant for work-related publication. But it was about offending someone who has control of my financial situation (no, not my husband, ...
Seems like I wrote something about vampires last night. I hope it was coherent. Man, I was wiped out. You don't even know. Anyway, I'd like to share a little revalation I had a few years back that I still try to keep in mind while writing. Some of you who have been writing for a while may already have discovered this on your own, but whatever. It was an important step on my journey to writinghood and it deserves to be commemorated. I was writing on a fantasy story simply ...
Updated 10-20-2011 at 01:48 AM by Anders Ämting (Annoying punctuation.)
Irregardless of what my previous blog entry may have implied, I am not in fact a preteen girl. Thus it should come as no surprise that I'm not a big fan of the Twilight Saga. I tried reading the first book, found it amazingly poorly written and lost interest halfway through. Don't get me wrong, though: I don't hate Twilight, I just think it is underserving of all the attention it gets. That includes the people who actually hate the franchise, mind. I've seen entire essays written on ...
My name is Skrillex My name is Skrillex My name is Skrillex My name is Skrillex (buzz and beep and random whatever) What am I listening to? I kinda like it, but it's not great. >_> I like Marilyn Manson better, but I've listened to all his music enough that it's old. I don't understand how people, so many people, can listen to the same songs over and over and over and over and over, over many generations even. Like Hotel California. I've heard it ...
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