Activity for T.E.D.
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| Edit | Post #37645 | Initial revision | — | about 5 years ago |
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A: Is the first page of a novel really that important? I look at the first sentence as the "airport giftshop hook". If someone's got 5 minutes to kill before their flight, and wants to find an interesting read, how much of a hook is your first sentence (and perhaps then the rest of that first page afterwards)? Does it intrigue the reader, and make them w... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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A: The role of the supernatural in hard science fiction The answer is its all made up. So write what you want, and let other people worry about what genre it falls into. For me exhibit A of this is Anne McCaffrey's Pern series. The first book started out with people bonding with, and riding, fire-breathing dragons in a medieval setting. They periodically... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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A: First-person narrative: Does it make more sense to focus on internal thoughts than external gestures? I'll go out on a limb here and argue the second example is objectively better. The problem with the first is that it changes perspectives in the same paragraph. The first sentence is something that only an outside observer could notice, while the second is completely first-person. As a reader trying... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |
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A: What English version of the bible should I quote from? This gets back to a basic problem, in that there really is no such thing as The Bible; only translations compiled from various copies (which may or may not be consistent with each other). Using the King James Version, as most (all?) the other answers suggest, is usually a reasonably good compromise,... (more) |
— | over 7 years ago |