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Writer's Block: Awesome Openers
Jun. 30th, 2008 06:45 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
"It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the Chaplain he fell madly in love with him." - Catch-22
Man, how can you not be intrigued by an opening like that? Maybe it's just my 5+ years of reading awful slash fiction, but to me it's just perfect. The best part is that for pages after that first line the narration veers off into a digression about the lulzy state of Yossarian's liver and the vexing Texan. It's not until about 15 chapters later that it even gets back to Yossarian and the Chaplain's Epic Gay Love, and by then the book has engrossed you so much that you don't even care.
"It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the Chaplain he fell madly in love with him." - Catch-22
Man, how can you not be intrigued by an opening like that? Maybe it's just my 5+ years of reading awful slash fiction, but to me it's just perfect. The best part is that for pages after that first line the narration veers off into a digression about the lulzy state of Yossarian's liver and the vexing Texan. It's not until about 15 chapters later that it even gets back to Yossarian and the Chaplain's Epic Gay Love, and by then the book has engrossed you so much that you don't even care.
