I’m a writer, but I’m also a reader. Even if you aren’t both I’m sure there are things about the beginning of a book, the very first sentence that just bug the heck out of you.
Seriously. Me too.
So I’m going to talk here a bit about beginnings – specifically the very beginning – the first sentence of a novel which ideally is supposed to grip the reader by the eyeballs and not let them go.
Um, yeah. So here are five ‘do-nots’ from my perspective as both writer and reader.
First, it’s the begin...