Novelist's Syntax Cheat Sheet - Words that are often found at the beginning of the chapters of Literary Novels

The Magic of Starting Your Novel's Chapters

In terms of Writing Intros to chapters, certain words appear more frequently than others. Here are many of the most common ones

Other Grammatically Correct Story, Narrative, Shorts, and Novel Word-Starters

"The" - adjective ("The", "To The", "In The", "From The", "By The", "When The")

Such as:

·       The House on Haunted Hill

·       The Ocarina of Time

·       The Tree of Life

·       The Setting Sun

·       The Vast Valley on the Horizon

·       The Cemetery mid-morning

Others Include:

"It" - Pronoun Intro ("It was late at night when", "It was less than an hour to go until the car reached the state line." "It had not yet begun to rain on this cold Tuesday evening"

"Character Names" - Introductions, Verb Phrases, Brief Backstories ("When Phil Arrived At The", "By the time Ron got to the..."

"I, He, She, They, My, His, Her" - First, second, third person Pronoun sentence," - Pronouns, using sentences that start like "When I agreed to"... "or I arrived at the crime scene at", "I arrived at the house at 2:45", etc.)

"Dialogue" - Speech and Communication ("Did you see something back there? Said Harold Malcolm." "Oh God! What are you doing! Danielle screamed"

Scribd, and My Newly Organized Writing-Publishing Plan

Okay, I seem to have found a new part-time home in Scribd, the online manuscript publishing website.

My Fiction Writing-Reading Mode has seriously kicked into high gear lately, and I'm feeling like I need a new outlet to match this new form of personal expression I pursue.

I decided to turn to Scribd.

So if I end up writing more and more short stories (I've written around 45 short stories).

I already published a book of short stories through Lulu, but honestly, I'd love to publish each individual short story to a serious literary website, on a case by case basis, in the same way one would publish an e-book manuscript text. So I decided Scribd would be a good casual publishing decision.

Novelist, Screenwriter, Cartoonist - My Three Main Functions

Wrote and drew and COMPLETED the following:

Short Story Novella - 24 pages

Pilot Script - 21 pages

Comic Book Revamp 1-Shot - 24 pages

I feel like I've come a long way from the early days of my meddling in the dark arts (i.e. cartooning)....

Scooby-Doobie Doo, I Wrote an Analogy Article on You!

Some people look at me like I'm CRAZY when I bring up Mono and Scooby-Doo in the same sentence. How could you compare the two, my parents say, outraged. The two have nothing to do with eachother! Scooby-Doo is a HORRIBLE SHOW! YOURS is PERFECT. Though that's all very true, I can't help but feel my parents are missing the point and the bigger picture of this comparison. As much as I hate the stupidity of those Teenage Sleuths, oversimplified villains, and annoying Great Dane and its annoying Cousin Scrappy, there's a bigger comparison being made there. Scooby-Doo was the very first animated crime show, animated cop or sleuth show, spooky cartoon, and animated mystery and suspense show, all produced at the Hannah Barbera studio sometime around the 1970s. I know a bit about its history. Just like if there was no Lone Wolf and Cub there'd be no Blade of the Immortal, if there were no Scooby-Doo, I question whether there'd be a Ghost in the Shell. Or like, how, if there was no Snow White, there wouldn't be an Akira, as they both fall under the category of theatrically produced animation.

What's the underlying theme here, you ask? Genre. Genre history, evolution, lineage, and development over numerous decades. If Show or Movie A didn't Come out in 1956, show  or movie B wouldn't exist in the same form as we appreciate it as today, even though it is a thousand times more complex and beautiful to look at. No Flinstones, no other sitcoms like Simpsons and Family Guy or King of the Hill.

Genres change over time. When I wrote the script for Mono, I was thinking of David Fincher's Se7en, Jet Li's WAR, and Ghost in the Shell, and maybe 24 and dare I say the emotional delicacy of Leiji Matsumoto, and it's emo kin Oban Star Racers. Certainly not that famous Great Dane. But because of my unconscious genre choices, and the fact that I'm working within the limitations of an animated mystery and intrigue series, being linked to Scooby Doo, by history if nothing else, was an inevitability I eventually came to welcome. After all, Oban is an obscure show. Scooby Doo, though it often looks ugly as sin, is considered an icon and institution of the genre. Better to be compared to something famous than only obscure things. It's like writing a slasher film and getting compared to Michael Meyers. I can live with such comparisons

My thoughts on my Google-ish Philosophy?

Jay M's - Google-Principle No. 1 : 

"An employee's social status and standing or work / ethical history isn't as important as how much  teamwork and team spirit and pleasant harmonious work environment he or she contributes to bottom line results...."

Random Illustration Dude

Clearly, the Comics Thing isn't "Panning Out". YOU GET A JOB!

Probably going to some day apply for a job as a hotel or office janitor. 

I already worked as a supermarket janitor partially, which is what I did when I wasn't bagging groceries.

Shit man. I NEEDS ME SOME MONEY. And comics doesn't pay when most people in the industry hate you and shit on your grave. Screw that noise.

I'm getting a REAL job. Eventually.

Before my folks croak, I'll get a job. I've made it my resolution.