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Poll: Would you continue to read?
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Yes
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No
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8 34.78%
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Would you?
#21
RE: Would you?
(October 11, 2015 at 5:18 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I would not.  A typographical error in the first line of a novel puts me right off.

Boru

Just because he forgot to capitalize the baby's nickname is no reason to be so harsh.

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#22
RE: Would you?
Hell yes.

In fact, I'm never reading anything ever again that doesn't start with that sentence.
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#23
RE: Would you?
Show, don't tell. You've got at least a page to hook the reader.
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#24
RE: Would you?
(October 11, 2015 at 12:37 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote:
(October 11, 2015 at 5:18 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I would not.  A typographical error in the first line of a novel puts me right off.

Boru

Just because he forgot to capitalize the baby's nickname is no reason to be so harsh.

Actually, I rather think it is. So there.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#25
RE: Would you?
It was Method Writing. He used a short "s".

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#26
RE: Would you?
The opening of a story is called a hook. "She killed a baby shortly after giving birth to it" is as good a hook as any. Why did she do it? Better keep reading if I want to know. There are many reasons someone might want to kill something right after it came out of, especially if this universe has magic in it.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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#27
RE: Would you?
(October 10, 2015 at 11:50 pm)Kitan Wrote: If this was the opening sentence to a novel, would you continue reading?

"She killed the infant shorty after giving birth to it."

Why not?  Beginning, middle, end, no difference.  Maybe it was a demon.  Maybe she is psychotic.  Who knows?  Have to read it to find out.
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#28
RE: Would you?
Ive got an idea for the second sentence.

"Now that I've got your attention:"
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#29
RE: Would you?
(October 11, 2015 at 3:21 am)Minimalist Wrote: Oh.

It's fiction?


Sad

Quote:Woman charged with 'throwing baby from NYC window'

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34453332
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#30
RE: Would you?
Uhhh yes or no is the only option?
(August 21, 2017 at 11:31 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: "I'm not a troll"
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