Another week’s gone by with little attention to fiction, but I’ll console myself by mentioning that 2007 hasn’t started yet, so not making NY Resolution progress is not yet a bad thing.
I did rediscover my copy of Sol Stein’s Stein On Writing and am ready to devour it again, along with his (IMHO) better How to Grow a Novel. Early in Stein on Writing he talks about opening sentences and paragraphs, which gave me the impetus to examine a few of my favourite novels and their beginnings.
Andrew McGahan’s Praise -
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