tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8674828414021418178.post1306312290725245529..comments2024-01-30T02:18:46.434-06:00Comments on ACME AUTHORS LINK: OPENING YOUR STORY With 'Heat" on the PAGE - THE GRAB & HOOK by Robert W. WalkerMorgan Mandelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10118929301591850918noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8674828414021418178.post-9461349219507709732009-04-14T10:16:00.000-05:002009-04-14T10:16:00.000-05:00I'm sort of embarrassed to say that I just discove...I'm sort of embarrassed to say that I just discovered your Chicago "White City" novels. Usually a nonfiction girl myself, but I'm looking forward to reading them. And, I'll bet my readers would too. Best wishes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8674828414021418178.post-7928527513061956852009-04-10T21:06:00.000-05:002009-04-10T21:06:00.000-05:00An old term helps me...in media res or in the midd...An old term helps me...in media res or in the middle of things. Open your story in the middle of things. If you open not at the bottom of the cliff with character thinking of climbing up, no good; he should be half way up with the rope snapping in sentence one. Take the climbing metaphor to any situation or circumstance, in the middle of a car wreck, in the middle of a thing gone south or bad or sour, It's how every clint Eastwood film opens--his action ones at least.<BR/><BR/>robRob Wallkernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8674828414021418178.post-80533287632235998192009-04-10T19:32:00.000-05:002009-04-10T19:32:00.000-05:00So easy to say. So hard to do. Dean Koontz writes ...So easy to say. So hard to do. Dean Koontz writes his over and over dozens of times until he gets it right. Would that I could as well as he.Deborah Talmadgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17468409806638834635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8674828414021418178.post-68363837294686843462009-04-10T07:54:00.000-05:002009-04-10T07:54:00.000-05:00Grab the reader and don't let go! Great idea. Some...Grab the reader and don't let go! Great idea. Some books take a while to get into and some readers are patient, but many are not.<BR/><BR/>Morgan Mandel<BR/>http://morganmandel.blogspot.comMorgan Mandelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10118929301591850918noreply@blogger.com