I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.
Scott WesterfeldProbably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?" "Poisoned peanut butter." "Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter.
Scott WesterfeldShay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.
Scott WesterfeldTypographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.
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