You may have an out-of-the-ballpark manuscript, but if you don’t get the reader interested within the first sentence or paragraph, you may lose that reader. Those first sentences are so important, Jacob M. Appel (author of over two hundred published short stories) notes, “agents and editors, if not impressed after a sentence or two, will…
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Grab the Reader’s Attention
Contributed by Team Member Suzanne Lieurance You can be a best-selling author! Is that true? Maybe. Maybe not. But I’ll bet I got your attention with that statement. And that’s exactly what you want to do if you hope to write novels and short stories (even nonfiction articles) that sell – grab your reader’s attention…