My favourite novel beginnings
March 4th 2008 21:41
The beginning of a novel is crucial to a book's success. The beginning must hook the readers and reel them in immediately, otherwise the story will not be read by many people.
Take me, for example: The main factor that influences my decision whether to buy a book or not is its beginning. If I don't want to know what the story is after the first sentence, I'll but it back on the shelf and go on to the next.
So here's a Writing Words Top Tip: Make your novel beginning irresistible. Like those:
1. All stories are love stories.
2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
3. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Take me, for example: The main factor that influences my decision whether to buy a book or not is its beginning. If I don't want to know what the story is after the first sentence, I'll but it back on the shelf and go on to the next.
So here's a Writing Words Top Tip: Make your novel beginning irresistible. Like those:
1. All stories are love stories.
2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
3. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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