heywriters:

albatris:

hey. hey. I have a confession

I fuckin LOVE dialogue as a first line. I adore it. whenever I flip open a book and the first line is dialogue I’m like hell YES this is my SHIT

there’s lists of, uh, TOP TEN WAYS YOU SHOULD NEVER START YOUR NOVEL EVER and “opening with dialogue” is always on them

the gist being that it’s bad bc the reader doesn’t care about this character yet so why are they gonna care about this dialogue, right, they don’t have any context for it, you should start with something that gets the reader invested and emotionally pulled in, so on, so forth

(and I’m not here to argue or call bullshit on these lists or anything…… 99% of the time, the reasons listed of why you should Maybe Not Do The Thing are perfectly valid concerns and dangers that should be taken into consideration)

(this post is more a ramble about personal preference with a nice moral at the end)

(and definitely not a TOP TEN REASONS “TOP TEN WAYS YOU SHOULD NEVER START YOUR NOVEL EVER” LISTS ARE LIES AND SLANDER post god could you imagine)

but yeah, for me, dialogue opening lines pull me right the fuck in emotionally. for real. nine times out of ten they’ll yank me in and have me engaged instantaneously. always have, probably always will

(like come on. have y’all never just started eavesdropping right in the middle of some total strangers’ conversation on the bus. especially if it’s somethin weird. it’s so good)

but ANYWAY, the moral is uhhhh

whatever Mortal Writing Sin you wanna commit, there’s probably at least one weirdo out there possibly named logan who digs it

do whatever the fuck you want, honestly

you can write an opening scene that does everything every advice page tells you to do with an opening scene and it can still be shit

you can write an opening scene doing everything every advice page tells you NEVER to do with your opening scene and it can still be fabulous and engaging

if you can pull it off, literally who cares

“if you can pull it off, literally who cares“ is the only real writing rule

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books-n-quotes:

“I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.”

— Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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sleepyandwitchy:

ANDREW MINYARD IS A HUFFLEPUFF

thank you for coming to my ted talk

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ecryre:

/ˈaftərˌɡlō/

noun
the color left in the sky after the sun has set or good feelings that remain after a successful or pleasurable experience.

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thecornercoffeeshop:

Sunday mornings

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irishlassplays:

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girlwithabicycle1:

trubenblack:

Andrew is such a disaster gay I just know one day there’s some article about how he’s dating Katelyn and he comes storming into his and Neil’s apartment and almost trips over a cat as he yells that they’re coming out because he refuses to be seen as a heterosexual

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sirandking:

reynclds07:

sirandking:

reynclds07:

sirandking:

reynclds07:

sirandking:

reynclds07:

reynclds07:

hello andrew minyard doesn’t wear matching socks

#okay but i can’t decide if they should be non-matching like one’s fuzzy and orange with a knife design #and the other is just the words ‘fuck you’ printed over and over #or if they’re non-matching like one is a slightly darker shade of black (via @sirandking)

i love the idea of really dark gray mixed with one black sock, but also, he’d highkey wear one black sock with one sock that has little dinosaurs all over it, and it’s incredible

and sometimes he wears knee-high socks with sheaths in them for his knives

he has the worst tanlines, between his socks and his armbands, honestly

#im crying?? because this is how andrew becomes that trope of pulling knives out of every inconceivable place#they just keep coming (via @reynclds07) 

he’s definitely done the lara croft thigh sheath at least once, too

#i mean with knives and not guns but still #i’m pretty sure his tanlines could blind someone #he’s worse than any dad (via @sirandking)

andrew minyard, in knee-high socks and sandals, telling neil “nice to meet you fine, i’m andrew”

Dad Things that andrew has canonically done: driven his kids to sports practice and watched them play from the bleachers, banned his kids from dating until they were old enough, beaten up several of his kids’ enemies, given his kids silly nicknames (‘pinocchio’), made multiple bad puns (‘jean valjean’, ‘mayday’), bought a mid-life crisis fancy sports car, commiserated with Team Dad Wymack about their children over a bottle of whiskey

i can’t believe andrew is the Dad fox.  and he’s somehow the Responsible Dad making sure his kids get to practice and helping them quit drugs, but also the Cool Dad giving them designer clothes and taking them all to the club wo w

and he even takes them out for ice cream after school??

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