Comments on: First Lines, Part the First https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2012/09/04/first-lines-part-the-first/ Author of Healing Maddie Brees & Wait, thoughts and practices in waiting on God Thu, 06 Sep 2012 02:01:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.7 By: Rebecca https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2012/09/04/first-lines-part-the-first/#comment-1696 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 02:01:40 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/first-lines-part-the-first#comment-1696 Thank you, dear Beth. You are so right about Steinbeck. Ack! How could I have neglected him?

Tracey, it's so great to hear from you! Yes, you dear thing, you put up with more than that reading-aloud crap from me. Thanks for casting it in such a nice light, and thanks for reading!

Timothy, yes! I'm somewhat familiar with that Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, and will definitely look that up. Thanks for the link, and for reading!

]]> By: Timothy Crouse https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2012/09/04/first-lines-part-the-first/#comment-1695 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 23:34:29 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/first-lines-part-the-first#comment-1695 The first sentence is always the hardest. Once past that the ideas flow a little easier.
But whenever the subject of first sentences comes up I always think of The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (http://www.bulwer-lytton.com), which awards those who can come up with the worst opening sentence imaginable. As a writer, you would appreciate it. And it's good for a laugh. Check it out..

]]> By: Tracey Knowles McCollum https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2012/09/04/first-lines-part-the-first/#comment-1694 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 05:57:18 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/first-lines-part-the-first#comment-1694 I can still hear you reading Paton's lovely words. Thank you for that wonderful memory and for your role in developing my own love of literature.

]]> By: Beth https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2012/09/04/first-lines-part-the-first/#comment-1693 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:11:49 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/first-lines-part-the-first#comment-1693 Makes me think of Steinbeck. The dry expanse of Oklahoma in The Grapes of Wrath or the lush valleys of Northern California in East of Eden.

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