First Chapters: What To Include @ The Beginning Writer

Lately I’ve been learning a lot about how to begin your novel. Personally, I think this is the most important part of the book because it determines whether or not the reader will even give your story a try.

As a reader, how many times have picked up a book only to give up on it after reading the first few pages? When those pages didn’t grab you, you dumped the book and moved on to something else.

As a writer, you have to give your readers a reason to stick around right away.

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    This is great! Now if I can just translate it to my writing….
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    This is likely more useful after you already have a rough draft to play around with.
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