I've been rewriting the same opening scene for the last week. I think I finally have it. I think. Openings are hard for me. I'm on about my 4th stab at this one.
You were, just in a different way. Ruta was the sounding board I needed (poor Ruta!!) and so was my friend Karen when I got to Oswego. You were the person I could play expert to--while realizing as I listened to you and read those other things, that I had fallen into a similar pattern.
Those thrillers and the magazine articles, basic as they were, gave me a much-needed smack upside the brainstem...my opening was every big as blah...and though mine's not a thriller, it's also not supposed to be quite as put-down-able as it was. I think now it's not...there's conflict right up front, even if not all the conflict right up front.)
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Date: 2009-11-05 03:13 am (UTC)Those thrillers and the magazine articles, basic as they were, gave me a much-needed smack upside the brainstem...my opening was every big as blah...and though mine's not a thriller, it's also not supposed to be quite as put-down-able as it was. I think now it's not...there's conflict right up front, even if not all the conflict right up front.)