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I'm gonna run out of ways to start these eventually. But that's not today so welcome!

On this episode of the OWFFPOD, Zoey and Jake talk about one of the hardest parts of a story to write—the beginning. We ask where inspiration comes from, we talk about what makes a beginning good and bad, about picking the right tense for your story, and we cap it all off with a discussion on titling your story! Did we only realize that our podcast has a parenthetical title after the discussion on how we don't really like them that all that much? Don't be preposterous. 

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Works and authors referenced in this episode:

• Seven Blades in Black by Sam Sykes (http://www.samsykes.com/)
• The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King (https://stephenking.com/)
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (https://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1982/marquez/biographical/)
• “Bullet in the Brain” by Tobias Wolff (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/09/25/bullet-in-the-brain)
• The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell (http://www.bernardcornwell.net/)
• The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson (https://www.emilyrcwilson.com/the-odyssey)
• For it is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe by Gary Barwin (https://garybarwin.com/)
• The Perilous Trade: Book Publishing in Canada from 1946-2006 by Roy MacSkimming (http://www.roymacskimming.com/)
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (http://fallsapart.com/)

Music Credit:

RetroFuture Clean by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4277-retrofuture-clean

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/