Spend as much time as you need to get that first sentence right. A first sentence has only one purpose: to get a reader to read the next sentence. Here's my favorite first sentence:
Al Evans was forty-eight years old, a bachelor, and he should have known better.
I'm happy to say I wrote that first sentence. It's the first sentence of "Pittsburgh Confidential" which is in my author's den. It's a story about tainted love. I hope you enjoy it.
Yes, I agree completely. The first sentence in Pittsburgh Confidential is great because it creates such a huge impulse to find out why he should have known better, and does it have anything to do with him being a bachelor and forty eight years old? So many questions to be answered by reading on. Thanks for the article.
What causes America's mainstream media to fear and try to destroy a group of artists and their work? What happens when such a creative movement grows in strength and threatens media's bottom line? Why would extremists find it necessary to take acti
London: Lashed, Lacerated, Lampooned and Lambasted satirizes 18 popular Jack London novellas with adult content and language and the work is author Jay Dubya's 37th published hardcover/paperback book.
What causes America's mainstream media to fear and try to destroy a group of artists and their work? What happens when such a creative movement grows in strength and threatens media's bottom line? Why would extremists find it necessary to take acti
Brett
Brett
Is that a good first sentence?
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Georg