Friday, April 23, 2010

How to start your novel - Opens sentence Grande

Let philosophers try the substance of all creation is based. The fact that mathematicians and physicists to design and construct and interpret a cosmos axioms become reality. What research of linguists for the language of Adam, but let's master writer is free.
The writer must be free to explore the depths of humanity. DH Lawrence said: "As a novelist, I consider myself better than the saint, the scientist, philosopher and poet. The novel is the one bright book of life."
But so disparate and chaotic, that the authors seem to be in order, we can see that there is a method in their madness. Master writers tell the reader what is novel about them from the start, they can not openly say it, but the trick is to take it to the reader.
Wink
Whether we like it or not, sometimes ask to go only to reading as we: "Where is it going?" If Jane Austen in the opening of the Pride and Prejudice using the language of axioms and mathematics - "a generally accepted truth" - we have no choice but to accept that it is not only light but also playful.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
Now we think that the novel is funny, light, and that the focus on property and marriage.
A Sunday Sermon
After writing his masterpiece, Ana Karenina, Tolstoy product summarize a set of what the monster is on a novel about his writing. That's what he did:
"Happy families are all alike, all unhappy families are unhappy each in their own way."
And the unhappy family is the main attraction. I can only hear, Tolstoy said: "Anyone can write about happy families, there is nothing interesting about them. But since the unhappy family is unique in its own bad fortune are on the right track, let me tell you about the Oblonsky, the Levin and Karenina.
More than a dream, a nightmare
The writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez once said that the opening of Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis, convinced he could write the same if not even more amazing stories.
Dare to write the following sentence and can opener opens the book, Kafka must have felt full intellectual freedom:
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.
Lesser writers beg the indulgence of the readers and the suspension of disbelief. Confronted with the problem of the probable most writers of fiction in this agony retarder. Not Kafka. With one stroke of the pen, he dips his readers into the depths of a hellish nightmare.
A flash forward and flashback
Years of Solitude, firing squad, Colonel of the Buendia, ice, fathers, and in the afternoon at a distance is what Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.
"Many years later, before the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father had him to discover ice."
Not to say just the right tone, but also responsible for the cold and distant memories of violence, no one has.
A nameless narrator dreams
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier is a Cinderella dream into a nightmare and at times delirious, in which the anonymous narrator faces formidable entanglements.
"Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again."
The novel is told as a remembrance of tension, where the ghost of Rebecca (the first woman) is more frequent and more destructive than the madman in the attic. And we read with useless passion to the end, and nowhere do we see the name of the young woman.
Completion
Many fiction writers in their efforts to an exciting and entertaining, a novel and are beginning to move to the center of events to submit, to the reader all sorts of adventures, digressions, dramas and sub-dramas, and often standing in related events. However, the main theme of the book is not addressed until we are half way through history.
Through attention to the openings above the storyteller can learn the technique to reveal the importance of legal history at the opening. This detail shows that the author is sincere, is honest, and there is no child's game, deus ex machina, to be red-herring, withhold information or other technical tricks.

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