The Good Beginnings Analogy

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I was on the track team in high school. I ran hurdles. Then one day our coach drafted me to compete in a 100 yard dash event. Hurdles and sprints are not on the same planet, my best friend and team mate, a sprinter, broke his leg on my hurdle. He was a rabbit not a gazelle.

Anyway, I fell on my face when the starter pistol cracked, and limped to the finish line.

I notice stories do the same. If the beginning isn't good the story is fucked.

 

[FantasyXY]

I also see plenty of the opposite happening. The story starts out good and slowly turns to crap. I suspect that the story starts to get bad (poorly written), when the author is working more on his erection than on the story.

Yup, I suspect that many a story succumbs to the perils of a masturbating author.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I also see plenty of the opposite happening. The story starts out good and slowly turns to crap. I suspect that the story starts to get bad (poorly written), when the author is working more on his erection than on the story.

Yup, I suspect that many a story succumbs to the perils of a masturbating author.

Or pressured to finish.

 

[jomar]

We had a hook them in the first paragraph or few contest here a few years ago. Was fun.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

We had a hook them in the first paragraph or few contest here a few years ago. Was fun.

Sure. I'm reading an Elmore Leonard novel. Its 1st few pages are incoherent because the reader has no clue the principal character is speaking of himself in the 3rd person....like Bob Dole usta do.