One Of My Favorite Things..

Is to open a book and discover a really great first line or paragraph.

and

I love it when a writer is able to construct descriptions that so clearly define it's objective in a way I've never heard before.

My husband is very good at this. He seldom resorts to the cliché and he's able to describe the everyday things in a beautiful and completely brand new way. Just ask anyone who's received a Thank You card from SCC.

Here is a wonderful example from Crossing To Safety, by the Pulitzer Prize winning author, Wallace Stegner.

The first paragraph:

"Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake."

Lovely. I think I've discovered a new favorite author.

Here's a picture of W.S.

Oh, and did you know he was a professor at the University of Utah for a while? Here's an interesting link; www.law.utah.edu/stegner.