Opening Lines
Download Opening Lines full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Opening Lines ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
| Author | : Donald Maass |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2004-06-14 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 158297263X |
Make Your Novel Stand Out from the Crowd! Noted literary agent and author Donald Maass has done it again! His previous book, Writing the Breakout Novel, offered novelists of all skill levels and genres insider advice on how to make their books rise above the competition and succeed in a crowded marketplace. Now, building on the success of its predecessor, Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook calls that advice into action! This powerful book presents the patented techniques and writing exercises from Maass's popular writing workshops to offer novelists first-class instruction and practical guidance. You'll learn to develop and strengthen aspects of your prose with sections on: • Building plot layers • Creating inner conflict • Strengthening voice and point of view • Discovering and heightening larger-than-life character qualities • Strengthening theme • And much more! Maass also carefully dissects examples from real-life breakout novels so you'll lean how to read and analyze fiction like a writer. With authoritative instruction and hands-on workbook exercises, Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook is one of the most accessible novel-writing guides available. Set your work-in progress apart from the competition and write your own breakout novel today!
| Author | : Hans Bauer |
| Publisher | : Hans Bauer |
| Total Pages | : 150 |
| Release | : 2023-11-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Dear Reader, IN THE BEGINNING presents the all-important first sentence of 1,000 famous and not-so-famous novels (plus a handful of short stories). A smorgasbord of popular fiction from around the world, ideally, these opening lines will have a tremendous attraction for lovers of literature everywhere. IN THE BEGINNING is more than just a novelty book. Anyone who loves books not only enjoys being reminded of their favorites, but also delights in finding a good one they’ve missed. Those who relish reading and writing will savor a collection that brings back memories of beloved books, and often, the times in which they were read. From Virginia Woolf to Tom Wolfe, from Edith Wharton to Stephen King, from Ernest Hemingway to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, masterpieces of world literature are juxtaposed with trendy best-sellers, romances with westerns, classics with cult favorites. Some lines are well-remembered, others rarely recalled; still others are brilliant beginnings from relatively obscure books. But in every case, IN THE BEGINNING confirms how powerful a sentence can be. Bumping into a familiar line from a beloved novel fills the reader’s mind with imagery. (“The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tale.” (Jaws, by Peter Benchley). While dazzling openers don’t guarantee a worthwhile novel, expectations run high when we’re introduced with: “Paint me a railroad station then, ten minutes before dark.” (John Cheever’s Bullet Park) or “There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan-Am flight to Vienna and I’d been psychoanalyzed by at least six of them.” (Fear of Flying by Erica Jong). Some books reach their zenith with wonderful first lines that are never matched: “I had this story from one that had no business to tell it to me, or to any other.” That’s our initial meeting with the Tarzan series. Conversely, some rather mundane opening lines are made better because we know the marvelous story that follows, like B. Traven’s Treasure of the Sierra Madre: “The bench on which Dobbs was sitting was not so good.” Perhaps not truly memorable, but a truly unforgettable character, and Bogie didn’t do badly by him either. Enjoy. Hans Bauer
| Author | : John Brueckner |
| Publisher | : Cider Mill Press |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2018-12-04 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 1604338210 |
Spark creativity with 892 Opening Lines, an inspirational collection of fictional opening sentences. 892 Opening Lines is an astoundingly varied collection of fictional first sentences that will spark a writer’s creativity. It doesn’t matter if you are a published author or an aspiring one – at some time or another all writers need to jump-start their process. Whether you are trying to be the next John Steinbeck or J.K. Rowling, there is an opening sentence in here for everyone, from spy thrillers to bodice rippers and dystopian fantasies. Also included in this book are inspiring quotations from successful authors who know all too well the highs and lows of getting words on the page. Funny, enigmatic, touching, and beautiful, these opening lines unlock the limitless possibilities for all writers to start telling their stories. Author John Brueckner has won 8 Emmy Awards, and has been nominated for 38. His work has appeared on Comedy Central and the Cartoon Network.
| Author | : Kate Brauning |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2014-03-14 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1440581800 |
Ever since Jackie moved to her uncle's sleepy farming town, she's been flirting way too much--and with her own cousin, Marcus. Her friendship with him has turned into something she can't control, and he's the reason Jackie lost track of her best friend, Ellie, who left for...no one knows where. Now Ellie has been missing for months, and the police, fearing the worst, are searching for her body. Swamped with guilt and the knowledge that acting on her love for Marcus would tear their families apart, Jackie pushes her cousin away. The plan is to fall out of love, and, just as she hoped he would, Marcus falls for the new girl in town. But something isn't right about this stranger, and Jackie's suspicions about the new girl's secrets only drive the wedge deeper between Jackie and Marcus--and deepens Jackie's despair. Then Marcus is forced to pay the price for someone else's lies as the mystery around Ellie's disappearance starts to become horribly clear. Jackie has to face terrible choices. Can she leave her first love behind, and can she go on living with the fact that she failed her best friend?
| Author | : Dr Marian Hobson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2012-09-10 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1134774451 |
In Jacques Derrida: Opening Lines, Marian Hobson gives us a thorough and elegant analysis of this controversial and seminal contemporary thinker. Looking closely at the language and the construction of some of Derrida's philosophy, Hobson suggests the way he writes, indeed the fact he writes in another language, affects how he can be understood by English speakers. This superb study on the question of language will make illuminating reading for anyone studying or engaged with Derrida's philosophy.
| Author | : James H. Schmitz |
| Publisher | : Gollancz |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Science fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780575071445 |
Captain Pausert, master of the old pirate chaser Venture has finally found his niche. Unlucky in love and unsuccessful in business on his home planet, he seems to have a knack for selling job lot cargoes around the fringes of the Empire. In fact, he's so far ahead of the game that he even finds time for the occasional heroic act. Like rescuing three poor child slaves from their abusive masters. And then discovers he's broke again, wanted by the authorities and at odds with the most malevolent force in all of space. For Pausert hasn't rescued any ordinary put upon juvenile slaves but three of the legendary witches of Karres complete with awesome psi powers...
| Author | : Joshua Spodek |
| Publisher | : AMACOM |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2017-02-16 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 081443794X |
Don’t be content with simply learning what makes a great leader. Take the time to put in the work building those character traits inside you. Why is it that most of the principles and ideas we are inspired with when we read leadership books rarely end up leaving the page? Because we’ve learned what successful leaders are doing, as well as why we should be implementing it ourselves, but we have no idea how we can specifically do all this in our unique circumstances. Leadership Step by Step walks you through what to do and how to do it by taking you through an integrated and comprehensive progression of exercises designed to cultivate key abilities, behaviors, and beliefs through experience. By the end of the 22 exercises in this hands-on book, you will learn to: Build self-awareness Manage emotions Speak in an authentic voice Create meaningful connections Inspire others Each chapter opens with a story demonstrating a vital leadership skill. Then, it guides you through the process of developing that skill for yourself. Leadership Step by Step teaches you how to be that leader you’ve read so much about!
| Author | : Richard Peck |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2002-12-30 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1440672725 |
A Newbery Medal Winner Richard Peck's Newbery Medal-winning sequel to A Long Way from Chicago Mary Alice's childhood summers in Grandma Dowdel's sleepy Illinois town were packed with enough drama to fill the double bill of any picture show. But now she is fifteen, and faces a whole long year with Grandma, a woman well known for shaking up her neighbors-and everyone else! All Mary Alice can know for certain is this: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out . . . better not. This wry, delightful sequel to the Newbery Honor Book A Long Way from Chicago has already taken its place among the classics of children's literature. "Hilarious and poignant." —Publishers Weekly, starred review A Newbery Medal Winner A New York Times Bestseller An ALA Notable Book An ALA Best Book for Young Adults A Booklist Best Book of the Year A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
| Author | : Mike Bunn |
| Publisher | : The Saylor Foundation |
| Total Pages | : 17 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : |
When you Read Like a Writer (RLW) you work to identify some of the choices the author made so that you can better understand how such choices might arise in your own writing. The idea is to carefully examine the things you read, looking at the writerly techniques in the text in order to decide if you might want to adopt similar (or the same) techniques in your writing. You are reading to learn about writing. Instead of reading for content or to better understand the ideas in the writing (which you will automatically do to some degree anyway), you are trying to understand how the piece of writing was put together by the author and what you can learn about writing by reading a particular text. As you read in this way, you think about how the choices the author made and the techniques that he/she used are influencing your own responses as a reader. What is it about the way this text is written that makes you feel and respond the way you do?
| Author | : Charles Portis |
| Publisher | : Abrams |
| Total Pages | : 127 |
| Release | : 2010-11-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1590206509 |
#1 New York Times bestseller “An epic and a legend” —Washington Post “Quite simply, an American masterpiece.” —Boston Globe “The dialogue in True Grit is exquisite.” —David Mamet “Charles Portis had a wonderful talent—original, quirky, exciting.” —Larry McMurtry Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America’s most enduring and incomparable literary voices, and his novels have left an indelible mark on the American canon. True Grit, his most famous novel, was first published in 1968, and has garnered critical acclaim as well as enthusiastic praise from countless passionate fans for more than fifty years. This story of danger and adventure in the old west became the basis for two award-winning films, the first starring John Wayne, in his only Oscar-winning role, as Marshall Rooster Cogburn, and the widely praised remake by the Coen brothers, starring Jeff Bridges. True Grit tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen when the coward Tom Chaney shoots her father in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 cash. Filled with an unwavering urge to avenge her father’s blood, Mattie finds and, after some tenacious finagling, enlists one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available US Marshal, as her partner in pursuit, and they head off into Indian Territory after the killer. True Grit is essential reading. Not just a classic Western, but an undeniable classic of American literature as eccentric, cool, funny, and unflinching as Mattie Ross herself. For fans of either the John Wayne classic or the more recent Coen brothers’ movie, it’s a chance to relive the story of Mattie and Rooster and experience their story as it was originally told. For fans of taut, funny storytelling, it will be a joy to experience in its original form. This edition includes an afterword by bestselling author Donna Tartt (The Secret History and The Goldfinch) and a reading group guide.
