One of my favorite examples of how accuracy and creativity enhance the appeal of a novel is from “Throw Momma from the Train,” In that film, Billy Crystal played a creative writing instructor. A female student announces she’s doing a book about submarines. She stands up and says something like “Captain, I want to put up that thing so I can see outside the ship (submarines are called “boats”). I need to shoot one of those torpedo thingies…” Billy Crystal pointed out the importance of using accurate and convincing words and phrases. I’ve since been given books supposedly about submarines where it’s obvious the author has never been inside a submarine.
The beginnings of exciting novels need to draw readers into the characters and their plots. In my “Goshawk,” the hero’s attacked in his home in Finland and his pregnant girlfriend murdered. That approach hopefully makes the reader wonder “what’s next?” and turn the pages. To be avoided: a book by a “New York Times Bestselling Author (isn’t everyone?)” that was recently touted. I couldn’t tell from the first few pages what it’s about. In “Stepping on Fingers,” a young school teacher is sent to a Russian penal colony by an American religious court but escapes to help clean up government censorship.
My latest creation, “Criminal Opera,” reveals early on that it’s about applying the still vibrant Nuremberg punishments to the people who forced untested vaccines on a compliant public, killing and maiming millions while getting rich.
@https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-411/279946/20230920125416211_Benz_Amicus_Final.pdf
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