Tuesday, October 18, 2022
I love this novel, I think its one of Robert A Heinlein’s finest offerings. I have wrote about it in great depth in the past, but were only here to talk about the first line today. “Once upon a time when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith." Once upon a time is a …Friday, October 15, 2021
There are two opening lines in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation. The first is the extract from the encyclopedia Galactica (the fictional book that chronicles the universe. Asimov uses it to fill in the gaps for the reader) and then the actual first “in universe” line. It feels a little …Wednesday, October 13, 2021
I had a conversation with a friend today. He was talking about writing and how its done, I went off on my usual rant about how I think the opening line of a novel is the scariest moment any writer is faced with. It is in my opinion the act of looking at all of the infinite possibility that a story …