Rupert Brett: The Story of a Modern Experiment (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Rupert Brett: The Story of a Modern Experiment

The beginning of a story is apparently the easiest thing in the world. One can begin, like "Robinson Crusoe or "Gulliver's Travels," with a brief family history and a summary of the leading character's doings up-to-date. Or one can begin with descriptions of scenery, and thus introduce one's principal personages. "The rolling flood of the mighty Amazon" would be a good beginning. A Little boat (containing the hero, of course, and any other necessary characters) comes round the bend, and so on. Or again, the sun rises (preferably in the East), "tipping the snowy spear-heads of the Himalayas with rosy light. Temple bells begin to ring; there is a faint scent of incense in the air; a figure is seen wandering down (or climbing up) the mountain-side. Suddenly a sharp report is heard," etc., etc. The sun, too, can set as well as rise, and there are a thousand and one interesting places in which it can perform that remarkable but perfectly normal feat, "changing the world into a paradise of purple and crimson, green and gold," and so forth. Another good beginning is the typical English landscape - rich, lush meadows, cattle lazily browsing, the quaint old orchard. In this style of scenery all that is necessary to get things going is a ripple of mischievous girlish laughter. Simple but effective, one might call it.

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