First Line Frenzy™ #13: An Editor Reviews Your Opening Line | Reedsy Live

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  • Опубликовано: 29 окт 2024

Комментарии • 24

  • @dcle944
    @dcle944 6 месяцев назад +3

    I’m one of the picky readers who read the first line and go, “Nope, not for me” and shut the book.
    Now that I’m a writer. Oh, god, it’s so hard to write a good first line, so now I understand the pain of all you good writers out there.

  • @sebat1n484
    @sebat1n484 7 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you Rebecca and Martin, these videos are great!

  • @justforrandom
    @justforrandom 7 месяцев назад +3

    Off topic but absolutely love that bubblegum pink lipstick Rebecca has on! Looks so good on you!! ❤️❤️ thank you both for taking the time to make these they’re very informative

  • @walklovesparkle1804
    @walklovesparkle1804 7 месяцев назад +2

    Hi Everyone! Delighted I haven't misses this!

  • @theoneandonline
    @theoneandonline 7 месяцев назад

    Very insightful high-level advice. I'm learning a lot. Thank you!

  • @helengillespie7157
    @helengillespie7157 7 месяцев назад +2

    Great presentation! I'm rewriting my first line. ---Helen from Fort Walton Beach. FL

  • @jaysbooshcraft3889
    @jaysbooshcraft3889 4 месяца назад

    Rebecca is amazing! I was watching a similar video doing the same kind of sentence breakdown, fustrated the hosts weren't. They were reading first 250 words but i was getting caught within first few lines haha. No where near as masterfully as her.

    • @jaysbooshcraft3889
      @jaysbooshcraft3889 4 месяца назад

      Woah! Exact thought about the metal bars just before she said it. Yes absolutely it should just have been about someone tied up.

  • @peeheadlam-williams2935
    @peeheadlam-williams2935 7 месяцев назад

    This is so helpful. Thank you!

  • @SweetUniverse
    @SweetUniverse 7 месяцев назад

    I would've liked this sentence: "That night he followed her as far as the abandoned Olive Garden."

  • @acceptfilms9415
    @acceptfilms9415 7 месяцев назад

    Thank you from Thailand - nice stuff!

  • @maxsinclair787
    @maxsinclair787 5 месяцев назад

    17:20 about m dashes. the thing she said to do to make them only worked in scrivener for me. I tired word and google docs too, is there a setting I need to change? I mostly write in scrivener so no big deal but it would be nice if it worked elsewhere.

  • @ritalrussell_author
    @ritalrussell_author 7 месяцев назад

    Oh this was fun!

  • @ElyJ70
    @ElyJ70 7 месяцев назад

    Once upon a time Ely James against motive, brains and expectations gets the Pulitzer! ;(_+_); = my first line of 70

  • @milemarker301
    @milemarker301 7 месяцев назад +1

    I get the joke about AI,,,, just btw, I lost my job to AI last month - I worked in a white-collar sweatshop work -at-home job, reading essays for college entrance exams...

  • @DesireDialogue
    @DesireDialogue 3 месяца назад

    How can I submit for first line critique please?

  • @dannyperez1604
    @dannyperez1604 7 месяцев назад +1

    Great video, very helpful.
    At 16:00 when talking about tenses with verbs....isn't the second verb a particle phrase and can thus be in the present tense as it is describing an action that occurred during the previous verb.?
    Ie.
    He sprawled on a bus stop bench, balancing a bed pan on his lap.
    That's actually correct. Or am I wrong?

  • @rabidmonkey04
    @rabidmonkey04 7 месяцев назад

    I thought that there was an event brite done for these. They not using that anymore? Didn’t get to sub a line 😢 (Iheard him say he sent out email tho, seems I don’t have it)

    • @achatwithalex474
      @achatwithalex474 7 месяцев назад +1

      Hi
      I follow Rebecca on Instagram and she put out a story to advertise it. If you’re not a social media user that won’t help of course. But hope it does

    • @rabidmonkey04
      @rabidmonkey04 7 месяцев назад

      @@achatwithalex474 cheers for the suggestion :)

  • @dcle944
    @dcle944 6 месяцев назад

    Wish you expanded on when it’s not fine to start a sentence with a gerund.

  • @SweetUniverse
    @SweetUniverse 7 месяцев назад

    Wait a minute, if the sky was colors that had never existed before, how would we be able to see them? Maybe, "... colors I had never seen before." Or, "... he had never seen before. "

  • @nella5861
    @nella5861 7 месяцев назад +1

    Nella, Toronto, hello!