To what introductions would your creative writing instructor say, "Don't start this way! ?"
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Egao No Genki
ANSWERS: 11
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It was a dark and stormy night? "They call me Mac"? "Call me Ishmeal"?
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Whenever I'd try to tell rather than show. We always knew it was about show and tell, right?
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"Four score and seven years ago .... " :)
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"once upon a time" "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . . ."
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"What if today began just like any other day, except that you awoke as a cockroach?"
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Don't start at the beginning. Through you're reader right into the middle of the action in a scene. Dialog is a good way to do this. If you take pages of description to 'set up the scene' your reader may have already fallen asleep and drooled all over the text, ruining the ink before they ever get to the good stuff.
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1. Kill your darlings. 2. Avoid the passive voice. 3. Avoid adverbs. 4. Show, don't tell (a lot harder than it sounds). 5. To write is human, to edit is devine aka: For all have fallen short of editorial perfection. My Creative writing teacher is Stephen King (On Writing)...helped me a great deal.
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THE END.
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Anything that begins with "I" or "It."
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This question would be one of them...
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Once upon a time, or in the begin, or along time ago....
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