Writers, let’s say you’ve got a great plot, characters that learn and change, and so much more. But the book isn’t attracting fans. What could be wrong? Perhaps you need to take a good look at the bonding moment between reader and main character in the first few paragraphs of your book. Is there something […]
Writers, more tips for your first page
New writers are often tempted to explain everything at the beginning of a book. It seems to make sense. The reader will want to know where the protagonist comes from, what makes him tick, and so on. So why not just tell him, up front? The problem is that the reader doesn’t care yet about […]
Writers: That all important first page …
Have you compared the beginning of a current published book with one that’s forty or fifty years old? One of the things that might jump out at you is that stories nowadays start off, like movies do, with someone in the middle of something. In writer-craft speak, that’s using the technique called “in media res,” […]