Writer's Block: Awesome Openers
- A burning map. Every epic, my friend Jack used to say, should start with a burning map. Like in the movies. F***ing flames burning the world away; that's the best thing about all those old films, he said
- when you see this old parchment map just ... getting darker and darker in the centre, crisping, crinkling until suddenly it just ... fwoom.
That was Jack for you; if you asked him what he wanted for his birthday, he'd tell you he wanted an explosion.
'Vellum' by Hal Duncan.
Who wouldn't want to get to know Jack a little better?
- when you see this old parchment map just ... getting darker and darker in the centre, crisping, crinkling until suddenly it just ... fwoom.
That was Jack for you; if you asked him what he wanted for his birthday, he'd tell you he wanted an explosion.
'Vellum' by Hal Duncan.
Who wouldn't want to get to know Jack a little better?