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When you write the blurb that goes on the back of the book, should you write a **description** or a **teaser**? This article explores that question, explaining why each of them work and what their effects are, and why sometimes one is a better choice than the other. | When you write the blurb that goes on the back of the book, should you write a **description** or a **teaser**? This article explores that question, explaining why each of them work and what their effects are, and why sometimes one is a better choice than the other. | ||
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- | Mark Watney is an astronaut, partway through a mission to Mars, when a major sandstorm | + | Mark Watney is an astronaut, partway through a mission to Mars, when a major storm forces them to abandon both the surface and the rest of the mission. Critically injured during the evacuation, he is left for dead by his crewmates. |
- | Alone on a hostile planet, he must learn how to survive for four years using every ounce of his training as an astronaut, an engineer and a botanist. An uplifting story about overcoming insurmountable odds. | + | Alone on a hostile planet, he must learn how to survive for four years using every ounce of his training as an astronaut, an engineer and a botanist. An uplifting story about overcoming insurmountable odds.\\ |
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If the Oxygenator breaks down, I’ll suffocate. If the Water Reclaimer breaks down, I’ll die of thirst. If the Hab breaches, I’ll just kind of explode. If none of those things happen, I’ll eventually run out of food and starve to death. | If the Oxygenator breaks down, I’ll suffocate. If the Water Reclaimer breaks down, I’ll die of thirst. If the Hab breaches, I’ll just kind of explode. If none of those things happen, I’ll eventually run out of food and starve to death. | ||
- | So yeah. I’m screwed. | + | So yeah. I’m screwed.\\ |
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**The Ghost Gun**\\ | **The Ghost Gun**\\ | ||
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- | The Armshadd-650 is known to the military as the game-changer. On the streets it's known as the ghost gun. Nobody ever got wounded by it. If you get hit, you die. It doesn' | + | The Armshadd-650 is known to the military as the game-changer. On the streets it's known as the ghost gun. Nobody |
Shay Burton, caught in the crossfire between rival street gangs, is killed by a ghost gun. | Shay Burton, caught in the crossfire between rival street gangs, is killed by a ghost gun. | ||
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Daz is on the run. The police, the army and rival gangs are all hunting him. So are intelligence agencies and a group of mercenaries, | Daz is on the run. The police, the army and rival gangs are all hunting him. So are intelligence agencies and a group of mercenaries, | ||
- | Only one thing is certain. Shay Burton is dead. The problem is, she's really not happy about it. | + | Only one thing is certain. Shay Burton is dead. The problem is, she's really not happy about it.\\ |
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blog/articles_on_writing/description_or_teaser.txt · Last modified: 2021/06/17 10:12 by Phil Ide