The Goals of Your Novel Opening
Hooked: Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One and Never Lets Them Go by Les Edgerton The opening of your story carries an awesome responsibility. The goals of your…
The opening of your story carries an awesome responsibility. The goals of your opening scene are (1) to successfully introduce the story-worthy problem; (2) to hook the readers; (3) to establish the rules of the story; and (4) to forecast the ending of the story. If your opening fails to accomplish any one of these elements, then your opening will be faulty.
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Scott Francis is a former editor and author of Writer's Digest Books.
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