Posts by T.E.D.
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...
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 th...
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 th...
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 o...
