Comments on: Sweet, Scary, or Some of Each https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/10/sweet-scary-or-some-of-each/ A Blog On Writing Thu, 19 Dec 2024 07:35:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Laurie Schnebly Campbell https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/10/sweet-scary-or-some-of-each/#comment-155780 Wed, 09 Nov 2022 01:50:09 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=46482#comment-155780 In reply to Melissa.

Melissa, wow, I'm late catching up -- but you're SO right about Heidi; that was a treat to re-read just a few years ago. Most children's books don't hold up as well as childhood fans would expect, but the adult version of Heidi was quite good!

]]> By: Melissa https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/10/sweet-scary-or-some-of-each/#comment-155706 Wed, 02 Nov 2022 05:07:17 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=46482#comment-155706 Love the opening of the book Heidi, as it paints such a picture of the characters, city and natural environment. It really invites you into this new world.

]]> By: Laurie Schnebly Campbell https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/10/sweet-scary-or-some-of-each/#comment-155705 Tue, 01 Nov 2022 23:30:41 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=46482#comment-155705 In reply to Carolyn Toms-Neary.

Carolyn, that WAS a great book! I stumbled onto it by accident when I was recording for the blind; whoever used the booth ahead of me had been narrating that one and when I started looking through it I got hooked and had to get my own copy...definitely worth reading again. 🙂

]]> By: Carolyn Toms-Neary https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/10/sweet-scary-or-some-of-each/#comment-155704 Tue, 01 Nov 2022 21:36:32 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=46482#comment-155704 "The World According to Garp"
John Irving

I had to get to know Jenny and what made her tick.

]]> By: Laurie Schnebly Campbell https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/10/sweet-scary-or-some-of-each/#comment-155701 Tue, 01 Nov 2022 18:39:40 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=46482#comment-155701 I just counted up the number of comments and fed the total into random-dot-org which generated #10 -- so that means congratulations go to Christine Monson, who won free registration to "Boffo Beginnings & Fab Finales" which starts Monday. It'll be great seeing you (and anybody else with time for two weeks of email lectures & optional homework with private feedback) next week!

]]> By: Laurie Schnebly Campbell https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/10/sweet-scary-or-some-of-each/#comment-155700 Tue, 01 Nov 2022 18:31:53 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=46482#comment-155700 In reply to Kay Garrett.

Kay, isn't that line amazing? And it does seem all the more appropriate for a week containing Halloween and Day of the Dead...while it's not horrendously scary, it's definitely unsettling: what's up with Manderley?

]]> By: Laurie Schnebly Campbell https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/10/sweet-scary-or-some-of-each/#comment-155699 Tue, 01 Nov 2022 18:30:40 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=46482#comment-155699 In reply to Adite Banerjie.

Adite, this is cool -- you just made Rebecca the top vote-getter for great-opening books. It's always such fun seeing the names of old favorites, not to mention contenders for new ones...and I hope you got just the right amount of spookiness to celebrate!

]]> By: Laurie Schnebly Campbell https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/10/sweet-scary-or-some-of-each/#comment-155698 Tue, 01 Nov 2022 18:28:55 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=46482#comment-155698 In reply to Jenny Hansen.

Aw, I enjoy it too...WITS readers are so great about participating! Just a couple more posts to read and I get to announce the free-class winner. 🙂

]]> By: Kay Garrett https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/10/sweet-scary-or-some-of-each/#comment-155695 Tue, 01 Nov 2022 13:29:01 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=46482#comment-155695 Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca. This haunting line could never fail to draw in even the most reluctant reader: Last night I dreamed I went to Manderly again.

]]> By: Adite Banerjie https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/10/sweet-scary-or-some-of-each/#comment-155692 Tue, 01 Nov 2022 09:56:44 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=46482#comment-155692 Hi Laurie.
A little late to the party. But your blog posts are always so insightful, that I don't want to miss out! Love how you say that great openings should have something that is unsettling. Can't think of anything more unsettling than the first line of Rebecca, "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." That makes me want to write a spooky story right away! 🙂
Adite

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