this chapter gets off to a pitch-perfect but maybe a little too predictable of a start. meaning, it opens up with a chapter title, which is, "Chapter One."
okay, so yes, i am sort of going to reaction blog this while i'm reading, but i promise from here out i won't go word-by-word!
(if you want to know what the heck i'm talking about, go over to my left sidebar and scroll down (and down and down) to near the bottom of the post/page lists and you'll find a whole section for this book, where you can click open chapter one and read along.)
okay, holy shit, that's a damned good opening paragraph! bang! our main character's an android. bang! everybody's an android! bang! she has a morning routine that's weirdly similar to a human being, including brushing her teeth and hair. if i didn't already know why i wrote it that way, i'd for sure be curious as all get-out about why an android needs to brush her teeth.
bang! this chick android is obsessed with the possibility that there are still real humans hanging around somewhere in the world, and she might meet one and have a whirlwind romance.
guys, i just took 5 sentences (plus a bunch of bang!s) to summarize it, and the paragraph itself is only 2. and it's got a whiz-wham fun style to it too! how did i do this???
onward.
okay, so, holy shmoley, paragraph 2 is only 2 sentences too. it totally didn't feel like that when i was reading it, but going back just now to check, i was like, "where's the period? where's the period? where's the period?" (it would be in bad taste to make a pregnancy-scare joke here, so i won't, but i'm going to point out that i'm not doing it or else one of my yams will come along and read this and they'll make a pregnancy-scare joke and then i'll be peeved that they interrupted themselves reading this awesome book that i put so much effort into just to make a lame, bad-taste joke.) and then when i'm almost out of breath, i get to a question mark and say, "whew! not a period, but at least i got to the end of a sentence finally!"
and then the next sentence was even longer.
there's kind of two ways long sentences can go when you're reading a book. first, they could make you feel like things are dragging on and on and never getting anywhere. but second, they can just keep rolling and rolling like a snowball gaining speed and energy going downhill, and before you know it, your head is just full of all this info and understanding and feeling.
my second paragraph of my first novel i ever started writing pulled that second one off! dang, i can't help being really proud of me. next up, paragraph 3!
SMASH!!! What?!?!?
paragraph 3 is only 6 words long! but they are sledgehammer words. omg.
now i'm looking back again and i'm seeing part of what i did was, sentence 1 was medium-long, and then sentence 2 was medium-longer, making paragraph 1 overall a medium-ish paragraph. then sentence 3 was even longer, and sentence 4 was the longest of all, making paragraph 2 twice as long as paragraph 1. i really did totally snowball that, and then sentence 5 is that split second when the enormo-grown snowball reaches the bottom of the hill and smacks into you.
this is so freaking awesome! i'm a genius! i can't wait to keep g--
oh.
that's it.
that's the whole chapter. past claire, what are you doing to me?!?
tune in tomorrow for chapter two!
xoxo,
claire
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