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Hey Cli-fi...can we move that up to 2016? Pleasepleaseplease? ;)

Well how could you not like that one! Oh yeah, I had forgotten this one. Shame on me, cause I do love it. The other one is worthy of investigation, too. Very cool the way he knocks reality.

Okay, Juliana, you got me with this one. I'm adding it to my reading list. Phyrebrat, Yeah, Shirley Jackson, she's awesome. I just wish there was more to read by her...I'll join you in that wish to write like that, too. I remember finishing Castle and rereading the first paragraph and being...

I love the last line of this. And I can see why you like that opening, Victoria. The metaphor & similie is wonderful in it. I'm a fan of those. Great opening description. The close scruitiny of a character as the opening paragragh happens in one of the three favorites I listed above...

I was participating in a thread called The Difficulty of opening a story. This lead me to think about some of my favorite openings, and I listed some of my favorites in that thread. Then I thought, wouldn't it be cool to see what people like and hear why they like it? My first one is Shirley...

So true. One of my favorite books from college was Lovecraft's Mountains of Madness novella. Not only is it a slow start...nothing actually ever happens, yet it's one of the greatest books I've had the pleasure of reading for tension and suspense. In fact, sometimes action bores me. My...

I like prologs, too. I don't know why they are so frowned upon. If you know why Zebra Wizard, please share! I need enlightenment. Also want to know who and how many frown upon it? I was moderating a writer's workshop at WorldCon last year and absolutely loved a prolog one of the guests had...

Woot! Thanks Harebrain, I'm looking forward to reading that.

Bummer, I tried to go to that site you gave, HareBrain and it was down. Tried the Society of Authors, strike two! I'll try again tomorrow. Hopefully just a glitch.

I love that, Gonk! Must write a cabbage into my next scene and love it ;) And no, not normal to hear the Top Gun theme in you head...normal would be Journey's Don't Stop Believing :ROFLMAO:

I had an appointment to go to earlier so I didn't finish reading this forum. Am doing so now... To Phyrebrat, I say, "Here, here!" And to the Big Peat, "Seconded." Hi Ratsy and Gonk the Insane, My personal thoughts liking you your work and delivering for agents/readers are that you...

I agree with The Big Peat in this case. I'm getting insulted by TV shows that literally start with an explosion then you see "Three hours/days earlier..." I'm not a gnat; I don't need to know the middle or end first because I'm gonna die in 24 hours. I don't have the attention span of a...

I can't wait to read Endings!

oh, I like the new title for 3 much better.

Since we're talking a bit about the zone...any of you get so into it your body reacts? I've had to train hubby to leave me alone when writing. Early on, he would interrupt me (yes, he interrupted a writer in the zone. It didn't go well for him, poor man) and ask if I were okay. Seems I breath...

One night I went to bed early, about 9. I decided to write a children's story I'd been planning, How the Guinea Pig Lost Its Tail, or Just Another Almost So Story. At some point I started getting tired. I was quite irritated with myself for getting so eye-droopingly groggy at 12 when I...

I was researching vardos since I stayed at one in Wales on vacation in June. Sooooo much fun. And what I read said something about people would sleep under wagons like when it rained and it said that had this word associated with it. And I don't know the wall/bond thing, so I looked it up...

Oh darn! I was just getting on my shoes to go down and taste the train station...Might have been nice. They've converted it to a wine bar. But on topic, I think people take very different approaches to becoming a good writer. So perhaps the best thing anyone can do to become a good writer is...

Sadly I don't read commercially published books much. And I agree, reading helps a lot. I read maybe ten books a year though, since I'm an editor and am constantly reading other people's unpublished stuff. I took a break from writing for about ten years. I thought when I came back I'd be a...