Mary Catelli's Erraticly Updated and Exceedingly Ill-Organized Journal

How sharp should the transition be, from the opening in the prologue, to the main events in the story? 

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ah, friendship 

take care! 

I suppose it qualifies as my fifth. Though the outer bands hit us, they were still part of a recognizable eye structure.

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tooting along

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Thomas Sowell

One thing a series needs is vistas. 

If you keep on doing the same old thing in the series, you bore the reader.  If you keep on introducing new things, after a time the readers wonder why they never heard of them before. 

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Peace Talks by Jim Butcher

Book 16. The story starts and comes to a point within this book, but it alludes to a lot that went before -- and points very sharply at what will happen after.

Spoilers ahead for earlier books.

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It falls through the air, white and fluffy, and clumps on the flowerbeds and against the curbs. Not covering anything. If the seeds did cover the ground that much, I would worry.

The moon rises, and I see stripes through the stripes of cloud, and I think it is indeed a strawberry moon. (Less than a minute later, rising higher and escaping more cloud, it is a pale yellow, and somewhat later it is white.)

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