Joho the Blog » cliches http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger Let's just see what happens Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:48:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Crowdsourcing cliches http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/07/31/crowdsourcing-cliches/ http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/07/31/crowdsourcing-cliches/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:29:58 +0000 davidw http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/07/31/crowdsourcing-cliches/ I’m reading a pretty bad serial killer book by a well-known writer in the genre.

The first chapter describes a brutal killing by an unnamed gent.

The second chapter beings with a description of the hero doing something illustrative of her character. In this case, she’s jogging, pushing her physical limits, reminiscing about her time as an Olympic rower, yada yada.

The first words of that second chapter are our hero’s name.

I’m wondering how many other books begin exactly and precisely this way, right down to the hero’s name showing up as the very first words.

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