“The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree” by India Hayford
Review of Song of the Blue Bottle Tree by India Hayford with a craft analysis of first and last lines
Let’s Talk About First Lines with Faulkner
Recently, a statement in a BBC article by Hephzibah Anderson about the all-important first line of a novel caught my eye: “We frontload our expectations, insisting that a handful of words must contain the DNA of all that is to come, encapsulating the conflict of a 300-page story.”…