Monday, October 06, 2008

famous first words

I spent last week rereading, resuscitating, and otherwise resurrecting Part Three of my novel. I read all ninety-or-so pages last Monday: Is it a bad thing if you fall asleep reading your own book??

Note to self: add more tension.

I’m thrilled to be working on new material, though. Thrilled about beginning again. And I’m strangely excited to come up with the opening line for Part Three…

All right, I confess: I hopelessly love the concept of an opening line. It’s a book’s front step, the doorway. I love grabbing books at random and reading the first line…

Perhaps I got a little carried away, thinking about this last week, because I began stamping first lines onto my walls.


a bit of text from Austen and Peter Mayle

Yeah… swept up in the fervor of starting fresh. But it’s inspiring to stare up at other authors’ starts.

And as for Part Three, I’ve made a lot of discoveries. The sad part is that I have to throw out most of what I drafted for it last year. The great part is that I’ll make it a hundred times better.

For now, I’m trying to come up with the best way to organize all the material that must follow my (hopefully exquisite) starting line. Back to plotting…—jl

Posted by Jenn Langefeld on 10/06 at 04:45 PM
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