I yap on and on about getting that opening right. If you don’t follow my chatty blogs, you might want to look at Opening Pages and Fifty Words.
Opening Pages contains a great lesson about agents and openings learned at a writing conference. But today, I happened upon a TicTok “Book Tok” video that slammed the message home. In “Convincing You to Read Books Based off their First Line,” this young, prolific reader reads five opening sentences. Each opening made me think, “Why can’t I do that?”
Members of the Cast begins—
Outside the apartment door, Margo’s biggest problem was the “F” on her Biology test. Inside, it didn’t matter; her parents were leaving.
If you are less than stunned, I revised the opening 80 times and quit counting. Yes, that is the best I could do.
Listen to Jenna: Jenna Just Reads
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