![]() ![]() It’s kind of neat that this lizard can make itself look like other animals, but it isn’t using that power to accomplish anything. This lizard gets introduced even before Bink, the protagonist. Sooo, we start with three paragraphs about a lizard sitting on a rock. If its malice could strike him, he would be horribly dead. Yet as it shifted into the form of a basilisk it glared at him with such ferocity that Bink’s mirth abated. It was a chameleon, using its magic to mimic creatures of genuine threat. ![]() It had assumed the forms of obnoxious little monsters, but not their essence. Feeling threatened by the approach of human beings along the path, it metamorphosed into a stingray beetle, then into a stench-puffer, then into a fiery salamander.īink smiled. Start Your Book With Something That MattersĪ small lizard perched on a brown stone. Join me as I delve deep into the pit that is A Spell for Chameleon’s first chapter, and in so doing discover important lessons for writers everywhere. Xanth is a sprawling behemoth of 39 novels, with more still on the way. That’s right, it’s time to look at chapter one of A Spell for Chameleon, the first book of Piers Anthony’s Xanth series. ![]() It has been a difficult search, but I have found a nemesis of near equal awfulness, so that I may also be lauded a hero of the literary battleground. Stories are told in the halls of Mythcreants of the day Chris did battle with Eragon’s first chapter and emerged bloody * but victorious. ![]()
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