Tag: Catch-22

Great Closers of Fiction

Posted on by Michael Kahn
While the Internet teems with posts listing the best opening lines in all of literature, I have learned over years of reading and writing novels that a great opening line is nevertheless overshadowed by the importance of a great closing line. Yes, a great opening line will lure the reader into the novel. But even…
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What’s in a Name? (The Sequel)

Posted on by Michael Kahn
A few weeks ago I wrote a post on all those novels–including three of my own–that started off with a title other than the one that ended up on the dust jacket in the bookstore. You can read that post–“What’s in a Name? More than you imagine!”–here. But it was only later that I realized…
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