Writing & Selling Your Memoir by Paula Balzer
Author:Paula Balzer [Balzer, Paula]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-59963-419-7
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2011-01-15T00:00:00+00:00
SOME OF MY FAVORITE FIRST PARAGRAPHS
MANHATTAN, WHEN I WAS YOUNG
BY MARY CANTWELL
âIt was a queer and sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergsâ¦â Thatâs how Sylvia Plath started The Bell Jar and how I want to start this. Because thatâs the way I remember my first summer in New York, too.
SLACKJAW BY JIM KNIPFEL
âSUICIDE HOTLINE?â the chipper young woman on the other end of the phone seemed to ask me when she answered.
When I dialed the phone, I had no idea what I was going to say. I hadnât thought that far ahead. What: âIâm going to open my veins. Now what the hell are you gonna do about it?â That wouldnât do. I get into trouble when I donât think about things beforehand. Iâve never been a good improviser. So instead of saying something moronic, I opted to say nothing at all.â
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