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The place for fiction of all kinds. Novels, series, short stories, audio dramas, movies, you name it. If you're writing, producing, reading, watching, or listening to it, we want to hear about it!
Anyone want to crowdwrite a NaNoWriMo story next month?
yay kanopy and the library! watching Jacques Tati’s "Playtime" 😊
https://www.kanopy.com/en/rivlib/video/154477
https://www.kanopy.com/en/rivlib/video/154477
What fiction are people reading, watching, creating, and listening to this week?
Reading - Bad Chemistry by Tom DeGeorge
Watching - Anxiously awaiting season 3 of The Lincoln Lawyer
Reading - Bad Chemistry by Tom DeGeorge
Watching - Anxiously awaiting season 3 of The Lincoln Lawyer
Following up on my cast about opening sentences/paragraphs, here are the opening sentences from my first two novels. Definitely not as happy with the how I started the second novel!
1) Revenge is a Dish Best Served on the Mongolian Steppe
Prologue
"Furtive Khan Global’s head office occupied two floors of a nondescript nineteenth-century building tucked away on one of the small, meandering side streets just off Istiklal Ҫaddesi that have been confounding tourists for centuries."
Chapter 1
"They said only fools and mineral men came to Mongolia in the middle of winter. Intikam was feeling very much the fool as he stepped off the train on a brutally cold afternoon in Ulaanbaatar, the landlocked country’s capital city."
2) Bound by Crimson Threads
"Intikam Ҫobanoğlu, interloper for the industrial espionage agency, Furtive Khan Global, was on the homestretch of an agonizing thirty-hour trip from Istanbul to Delhi. "
1) Revenge is a Dish Best Served on the Mongolian Steppe
Prologue
"Furtive Khan Global’s head office occupied two floors of a nondescript nineteenth-century building tucked away on one of the small, meandering side streets just off Istiklal Ҫaddesi that have been confounding tourists for centuries."
Chapter 1
"They said only fools and mineral men came to Mongolia in the middle of winter. Intikam was feeling very much the fool as he stepped off the train on a brutally cold afternoon in Ulaanbaatar, the landlocked country’s capital city."
2) Bound by Crimson Threads
"Intikam Ҫobanoğlu, interloper for the industrial espionage agency, Furtive Khan Global, was on the homestretch of an agonizing thirty-hour trip from Istanbul to Delhi. "
If there's one piece of writing advice that has stuck with me, it's a tidbit from Salman Rushdie about a story's opening sentence/paragraph.
Paraphrasing here, the idea is that the first sentence/paragraph establishes a contract with the reader regarding the story they're about to read. Expectations management, as it were.
Ever since, I always find myself looking closely at the first paragraph of a novel or the first scene of a serial/movie. Lots to learn from the pros.
A Tale of Two Cities comes to mind as a great example. After reading the first paragraph, you know exactly what type of story you're about to embark on.
Paraphrasing here, the idea is that the first sentence/paragraph establishes a contract with the reader regarding the story they're about to read. Expectations management, as it were.
Ever since, I always find myself looking closely at the first paragraph of a novel or the first scene of a serial/movie. Lots to learn from the pros.
A Tale of Two Cities comes to mind as a great example. After reading the first paragraph, you know exactly what type of story you're about to embark on.
Favourite genre(s): faux-memoirs (think diary of Adrian mole series) near future sci fi
Favourite medium: novels but due to a lack of exposure to most other formats
Favourite aspect of fiction: escapism, expressing hard ideas
Last piece of fiction I really enjoyed: @kentb ‘s accidental intrigue!!
What I'm working on: (last abandoned) a near future sci fi on anti-aging gone wrong
What the world of fiction needs: bookshops and cafes for hanging out and reading
Favourite medium: novels but due to a lack of exposure to most other formats
Favourite aspect of fiction: escapism, expressing hard ideas
Last piece of fiction I really enjoyed: @kentb ‘s accidental intrigue!!
What I'm working on: (last abandoned) a near future sci fi on anti-aging gone wrong
What the world of fiction needs: bookshops and cafes for hanging out and reading
Would be great to get a sense of who's in the group.
I'll go first:
Favourite genre(s): international mysteries, historical fiction, espionage
Favourite medium: novels, followed by the serial
Favourite aspect of fiction: setting. Plot and character are great, but nothing beats a setting that is so rich it's a character in itself.
Last piece of fiction I really enjoyed: the Marko Della Torre series by Alen Mattich
What I'm working on: trying to finish the 3rd book in my Furtive Khan series and planning season 3 of the Accidental Intrigue audio drama
What the world of fiction needs: a better recommendation/discovery engine. There's just so much good stuff out there by unheralded creators.
Feel free to copy the template or make your own. 😊
I'll go first:
Favourite genre(s): international mysteries, historical fiction, espionage
Favourite medium: novels, followed by the serial
Favourite aspect of fiction: setting. Plot and character are great, but nothing beats a setting that is so rich it's a character in itself.
Last piece of fiction I really enjoyed: the Marko Della Torre series by Alen Mattich
What I'm working on: trying to finish the 3rd book in my Furtive Khan series and planning season 3 of the Accidental Intrigue audio drama
What the world of fiction needs: a better recommendation/discovery engine. There's just so much good stuff out there by unheralded creators.
Feel free to copy the template or make your own. 😊
Just finished watching The Platform 2. Not bad, but would've done better as an 8-episode mini-series to better articulate the internal struggle.
Also reminds me how hard it is to make a successful sequel when you can no longer rely on the novelty of your premise.
Also reminds me how hard it is to make a successful sequel when you can no longer rely on the novelty of your premise.
What are your favorite October reads? 📚✨📙🧡📖🎃
October vibes Anne Rice for me 🧡✨📳🎃🧙🏻♀️📚📕📖 The Witching Hour is one of my all-time favorite books. The story is rich in New Orleans magic and powerful ancestral lineage. ⚡️⚡️⚡️✨🕯️🖤
Welcome to all things fiction!
I've set it up so anyone can become a member. Just click "join the fiction" under the channel title to open the join frame.
Feel free to post anything and everything, as long as it's about fiction in all of its forms.
I do hope this channel will become as much a place for creators of fiction as for consumers of fiction.
I've set it up so anyone can become a member. Just click "join the fiction" under the channel title to open the join frame.
Feel free to post anything and everything, as long as it's about fiction in all of its forms.
I do hope this channel will become as much a place for creators of fiction as for consumers of fiction.