Comments on: Botched Beginnings—Common First-Page Killers https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/05/botched-beginnings-common-first-page-killers/ Author, Blogger, Social Media Jedi Sat, 02 Jul 2022 16:50:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: A Fresh New Year: The Literate Lifestyle I’m Looking Forward to this Month – Debby Zigenis-Lowery's Literate Lives https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/05/botched-beginnings-common-first-page-killers/#comment-103720 Sat, 05 Jan 2019 00:57:56 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=19567#comment-103720 […] “Botched Beginnings—Common First-Page Killers,” by Kristen Lamb. Lamb is one of my favorite bloggers. She is both incredibly knowledgeable about crafting fiction and building an author platform and with the added bonus that she often makes me laugh out loud. […]

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]]> By: Author Kristen Lamb https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/05/botched-beginnings-common-first-page-killers/#comment-66852 Mon, 06 Jun 2016 11:26:16 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=19567#comment-66852 In reply to Glynis Jolly.

Movies get to do things that novels cannot. Remember in the movie it is only a couple minutes of a visual and the actors are responsible for conveying emotion. The audience is not in the narrative of the head of the grieving character and THAT is the part that gets emotionally tedious.

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]]> By: J. Kolb https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/05/botched-beginnings-common-first-page-killers/#comment-66850 Sun, 05 Jun 2016 16:26:47 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=19567#comment-66850 You have me “hooked” even though I might be traveling that day. I think. I don’t know. Maybe?

]]> By: Glynis Jolly https://authorkristenlamb.com/2016/05/botched-beginnings-common-first-page-killers/#comment-66849 Sat, 04 Jun 2016 23:47:04 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=19567#comment-66849 Actually one of the movies almost every woman loves is Sleepless in Seattle. The movie starts of at a grave site. If the death is personal enough, it can make for a great beginning.

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