...or entertained. A Lorrie Moore short story that sucked me in.
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J.D.
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She starts with the weather. Elmore Leonard's first rule of writing is never open with the weather. Perhaps it doesn't matter; she weaves it around the songbirds and traipsing through the neighborhood as they peck on the ground. I realize this is the New Yorker! But she starts with the weather. J.D.
I fret over all that. I've read so much on what to do and what not to do: no weather, get right to the story, open with action, yada yada. Given all the advice from authors with how-to books and agents who warn of instant rejection if we overstep the boundaries, won't we all become cookie-cutter writers? Or worse, will too many suffer my fate? I am the classic unpublished bi-polar who can't find his voice with both hands. J.D.
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Barbara DeMarco-Barrett is author of the bestselling and award-winning Pen on Fire: A Busy Woman's Guide to Igniting the Writer Within (Harcourt, 2004), which is now in its 8th printing. She has a short story, "Crazy for You," in Orange County Noir, published by Akashic Books (2010) and an essay, "Knitting, My Urban Escape," in Knitting Through It (Voyageur, 2008). She hosts and produces Writers on Writing, which airs Weds. at 9 a.m. Pacific on KUCI-FM 88.9 in Orange Co., Ca, and streams live at www.kuci.org
3 comments:
She starts with the weather. Elmore Leonard's first rule of writing is never open with the weather. Perhaps it doesn't matter; she weaves it around the songbirds and traipsing through the neighborhood as they peck on the ground. I realize this is the New Yorker! But she starts with the weather. J.D.
I happen to love stories and books that open with the weather. Yeah, I've read Leonard's words about that.....takes all kinds, right?
I fret over all that. I've read so much on what to do and what not to do: no weather, get right to the story, open with action, yada yada. Given all the advice from authors with how-to books and agents who warn of instant rejection if we overstep the boundaries, won't we all become cookie-cutter writers? Or worse, will too many suffer my fate? I am the classic unpublished bi-polar who can't find his voice with both hands. J.D.
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