Here is the opening paragraph of prolific Texan writer Joe R. Lansdale’s 1999 novel, “Freezer Burn” ...
“Bill Roberts decided to rob the firecracker stand on account he didn't have a job and not a nickel's worth of money and his mother was dead and kind of freeze-dried in her bedroom.”
In 35 words, Lansdale introduces his novel’s chief protagonist, his situation, his problem, and the action he intends to take as a solution to his woes ...
Some writers couldn’t manage any of that with 35 pages.
From 2007, Samuel Jackson “Stack-O-Lee” from “Black Snake Moan”
“Bill Roberts decided to rob the firecracker stand on account he didn't have a job and not a nickel's worth of money and his mother was dead and kind of freeze-dried in her bedroom.”
In 35 words, Lansdale introduces his novel’s chief protagonist, his situation, his problem, and the action he intends to take as a solution to his woes ...
Some writers couldn’t manage any of that with 35 pages.
From 2007, Samuel Jackson “Stack-O-Lee” from “Black Snake Moan”
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