Creative Nonfiction, the premier literary magazine for creative nonfiction (ahem, obviously), has an interesting experiment in their new issue. Instead of starting with the lede (i.e. first paragraphs) that each author composed, they lopped off the beginning few bits. They are unveiling the "real ledes" and the author's comments on their Web site here. Only one is posted now, but I'm looking forward to buying the mag and checking back on the site.
The whole idea is interesting though -- could you lop off the beginning couple paragraphs off a story (or the beginning lines of a poem)? How would that change the work? And if an editor screwed around with your story that much, would you be irked? Or just glad that you were getting published?
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i would probably not like that shit one bit. i wrote the first paragraphs for a reason, and putting them ONLY on the website is just a ploy to get their traffic up and thus have more people viewing their ads. if they really wanted to run this "experiment," they could have just put the beginning paragraphs of each story at the end of the book in order by number. DUH.
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