How Saga hooks readers: Starting with action (video essay)
How the comic series SAGA starts with a bang, dropping us into the middle of a story already in progress, and how its exposition delivers drama instead of information. Also, how SAGA's structure follows in the footsteps of the pilot episode of LOST and the opening of the first STAR WARS film.
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ADDITIONAL READING
Saga series synopsis http://bit.ly/2lYUq5J
In medias res definition and examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_medi...
David Mamet bio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_M...
David Mamet's memo http://movieline.com/2010/03/23/david...
Lost series synopsis http://bit.ly/2lS7oC6
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ABOUT THIS CHANNEL
What’s the best way to start a story? What makes readers, agents, and publishers take a chance on our book? What holds their attention? There’s plenty of advice out there on how to write a first chapter, but so much of it is generic. So, instead, I went looking for concrete examples in great books. On HOW THE NOVEL STARTS, I explore the opening chapters of popular novels, and figure out what writers can learn from them for their own work.
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