Posts Tagged ‘Beginnings’
Establish your setting early on. Give The When, The Where, The Weather — the overall tone — as John Steinbeck does so well in the beautiful opening of Of Mice and Men: A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water […]
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WINNER ANNOUNCED HERE UPDATE: CONTEST CLOSED. The Journal Pulp is offering a $200.00 cash prize for the following: Best first sentence for a novel about a famous atheist-astronomer who one star-sprent summer evening glimpses God in the bottom of his whiskey glass. Rules and guidelines: No outrageous run-ons. You can submit anonymously or under […]
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CONTEST CLOSED. WINNER SELECTED. The Journal Pulp is offering a $200.00 cash prize for the following: Best first sentence for a novel about a poet truckdriver who loves the landscape almost as much as he fears the big black rig he sometimes sees in his rear-view mirror the moment before that rig vanishes. Rules […]
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Establish your setting early on. Give us The When, The Where, The Weather — the overall tone. Is your story happy, soft, somber? John Steinbeck does this so well in the beautiful opening of Of Mice and Men: A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and […]
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(c)Ray Harvey 2011