/lit/ - Literature

>>18831526
We're lurking and editing after harsh criticism.
>I masochistically enjoyed it, also I began to study all opening sentences of as many random fiction novels as I could.

Stephen King's opening lines can be quite long, but in general, his are a vague roadmap to the story.
A lot of these "NY Times best sellers" novels have opening lines that point directly to the main character's focus from the very first sentence. Other, more traditionally classic authors, will further weave the story without giving it away, literally telling and not showing, like the whole Anna Karenina opening like about "dysfunctional families and their own dysfunction" or whatever.

I was called all sorts of names and it helped me to see my writing from another perspective. Yes, I was telling a story, but what was the rhythm of the showing VS telling?
>How does one imagine
The attack of the pseuds had me asking myself if I was being too much of an interpreter of my schizo creative process, and instead of laying down several layers of edits with a nice asphalt blacktop and then carefully painting the lines in the road, I instead had chopped down the vegetation in my way, poured out a bunch of gravel and spray-painted vague yellow dots to show drivers where to go.

Going back through the edits, I'm putting some floral parts here, some telling parts there, getting more of a rhythm going so the book flows from one high to another with some fluff in-between.
>Found a dead silverfish with toner on it's face next to my open toner refill kit
My attempts at writing have killed a life form on this planet, I gave it a viking funeral on a matchbox lid in the fountain behind my condo

GO GO GO NEVER GIVE UP WRITERS OF /LIT/!