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first sentence | GrowUpNovelist

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When I grow up I want to be a novelist. The accumulated editorial wisdom suggests that the first sentence of a novel should be carefully crafted. As a beginning blogger and novelist I have decided that one way to help both myself and other writers is to devote a set of posts that investigates published first sentences. Though the first sentence doesn’t need to be the entire “hook” that catches a reader it is an important part of it. KM Weiland in her new book. The sentence fulfills at least 2 of Weiland&...

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It all started when … | GrowUpNovelist

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When I grow up I want to be a novelist. Psst, Don’t Tell My Wife but I’m a Writer. KM Weiland, Outlining Your Novel →. It all started when …. Having committed myself to write I realized that I had never really researched or investigated how professional novelists go about their business and there was my Kindle just waiting for more content from Amazon Whisper Net. For whatever reason I chose to first read KM Weiland’s. Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success. I am going to create a “Reviews&#...

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When I grow up I want to be a novelist. Jill Elizabeth Nelson: Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View. But the modern novelist should not follow his example without very compelling skill. Jill Nelson defines deep point of view (POV) as writing that stays entirely within the framework of the character whose POV is currently telling the story. In the following example the POV is a teenage girl who has finally been found by one of the soldiers sent out to look for her. The example also illustrates one o...

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When I grow up I want to be a novelist. Jill Elizabeth Nelson: Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View. But the modern novelist should not follow his example without very compelling skill. Jill Nelson defines deep point of view (POV) as writing that stays entirely within the framework of the character whose POV is currently telling the story. In the following example the POV is a teenage girl who has finally been found by one of the soldiers sent out to look for her. The example also illustrates one o...

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When I grow up I want to be a novelist. Jill Elizabeth Nelson: Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View. But the modern novelist should not follow his example without very compelling skill. Jill Nelson defines deep point of view (POV) as writing that stays entirely within the framework of the character whose POV is currently telling the story. In the following example the POV is a teenage girl who has finally been found by one of the soldiers sent out to look for her. The example also illustrates one o...

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Jill Elizabeth Nelson: Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View | GrowUpNovelist

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When I grow up I want to be a novelist. Jill Elizabeth Nelson: Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View. But the modern novelist should not follow his example without very compelling skill. Jill Nelson defines deep point of view (POV) as writing that stays entirely within the framework of the character whose POV is currently telling the story. In the following example the POV is a teenage girl who has finally been found by one of the soldiers sent out to look for her. The example also illustrates one o...

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getting started | GrowUpNovelist

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When I grow up I want to be a novelist. It all started when …. So there I was 65 years old, still actively farming which can consume all of your time if you let it, struggling with this story that just won’t leave me alone. I have written over the last year several fragments of the story, the one’s that just had to get down on paper and I wasn’t unhappy with it but I just couldn’t make the whole thing into a novel. Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success. I am going to create a “Reviews&#8221...

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narrative distance | GrowUpNovelist

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When I grow up I want to be a novelist. Jill Elizabeth Nelson: Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View. But the modern novelist should not follow his example without very compelling skill. Jill Nelson defines deep point of view (POV) as writing that stays entirely within the framework of the character whose POV is currently telling the story. In the following example the POV is a teenage girl who has finally been found by one of the soldiers sent out to look for her. The example also illustrates one o...

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First Sentences: Introduction | GrowUpNovelist

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When I grow up I want to be a novelist. KM Weiland, Outlining Your Novel. Jill Elizabeth Nelson: Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View →. KM Weiland in her new book. Here is the first sentence for Richard Paul Evan’s book. James Kier looked back and forth between the newspaper headline and the photograph of himself, not sure he should laugh or call his attorney. The sentence fulfills at least 2 of Weiland’s suggested guidelines. First we have the character James Kier and second he is both ...We know...