Every beginning should beg a question--that's the theme of agent John Cusick talk's on writing the opening bit that'll grab an agent's/editor's attention. How did THIS happen? How did the narrator end up here?
It's a good talk with lots of concrete examples. Makes me want to get better.
"Call me Ishmael." Plese feel free using several hundreds of pages running with that one.
ReplyDeleteI like this concept of engaging the reader early on.