A nurse entered the waiting room and called my name. She wasn’t a nurse. “Mr. Walker? The Great Blogger will see you now.” I’d been summoned, but I resisted. It was a passive-aggressive resistance, I guess. I wasn’t going to not rise. But I wasn’t in a hurry to rise, either. “Mr. Walker?” She craned…
In the spring of his twenty-first year, Spike the Ridiculous set out on the back of a donkey to kill a pack a butterflies. This was during his time among the Amish, in the village in which he’d settled to study their ways, for he had fallen in love with the people and meant to…
In They say this is great writing, I wrote about how I intentionally ripped off the opening of Tom Sawyer several times. A comment on that post by Valerie Moone made me realize that there is another piece of great writing I ripped off unintentionally. Here is my unintentionally ripped-off opening (if you’d like, you can read…
A long time ago, when I first took an interest in the craft of writing, I read that the following lines of fiction were great opening lines. Opening lines to be studied and appreciated. So I took an interest in them. If you are a lover of great opening lines, here are some that are…
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