“First lines set the reader on track – but not always the right one. John Sutherland ponders the enigma of beginnings” An interesting literary read. An article about first lines of novels and related things. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/aug/26/featuresreviews.guardianreview29 ( The title of the piece is a reference to the first line of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick; or, The
When I read something saying I’ve not done anything as good as ‘Catch-22’ I’m tempted to reply, ‘Who has?’ — Joseph Heller There are some variations of the following anecdote. Any one, or part of them, may be true, or may not be true, again, in whole, or in part. But the truth is obviously
Happy Halloween 2017 Late because I forgot to do this. Submission for the 2017 CN&R Fiction-59 writing contest in Chico, CA. It’s not easy to write a GOOD 59-word story.
