25 Things To Know About Writing The First Chapter Of Your Novel: Every Book A Hook (And The First Chapter’s The Bait) A reader walks into a bookstore. Spies an interesting book. What does she do? Picks it up. Flips to the first chapter before anything else. At least, that’s what I do. (Then I smell the book and rub it on my bare stomach in a circular motion and make mmmmmm noises.) Or, if I can find the first chapter online somewhere — Amazon, the author’s or publisher’s site, your Mom’s Myspace page — I’ll read it there. One way or another, I want to see that first chapter. Because that’s where you grab me by the balls or where you push me out the door. The first chapter is where you use me or lose me. READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE: terribleminds/ramble/2012/05/29/25-things-to-know-about-writing-the-first-chapter/ King Roozie
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