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[personal profile] wireless
First lines are supposed to be key to connecting to the reader, hooking a publisher and making yourself feel like a thoroughly fabulous writer. So, carrying on that proud tradition…

Call me Ishmael.

There. Glad to have got that one out of the way. Getting back to business, I'd like to point out that the general content of this journal will be fragments of my ongoing projects, research links, rambling about writing, video posts about writing and pictures. Possibly pictures of writing.

There will be real life content here and there, particularly when I take a trip and feel the need to foist my local treasures on you. Hopefully 2010 will be the year that The Ten Tours commences (details on that in due course).

The attempt to make this first post sound less like a first post has failed miserably.

A beginning should mirror an ending.

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

Note: First line belongs to Moby Dick and the last line belongs to The Catcher in the Rye. Although I suppose it's not a last line anymore. Ha! Great literary principles thwarted again!

Date: 2009-08-10 06:52 pm (UTC)
nightbird: Mucha illustration, young peasant holding scythe and grain (the fox confessor)
From: [personal profile] nightbird
I love, love, love first lines. A magazine I used to read religiously growing up, Cricket (or maybe Cicada? they were all part of the same marvelous publishing group for kids who liked to read and write), used to feature favorite first lines that readers would send in.

All of which is to say I am excited to see this journal grow! (And... could that have sounded any dorkier if I'd tried?)

Date: 2009-08-11 04:12 pm (UTC)
nightbird: Mucha illustration, young peasant holding scythe and grain (if you're not careful)
From: [personal profile] nightbird
! All I've got is "aw shucks" -- and ooo, that link sounds dandy! (I want to put a smiley here. It's a compulsion. Is DW too cool for smileys?)

Date: 2009-08-11 06:38 pm (UTC)
nightbird: Mucha illustration, young peasant holding scythe and grain (they didn't know what else to do.)
From: [personal profile] nightbird
Ahhhhh! Sweetheart, you are too kind and marvelous! \o/ :-D!!!!!
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