In last Thursday’s office hours, exclusively for newsletter subscribers, I covered all things first pages:
- First pages from the reader’s perspective
- GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn
- KLARA AND THE SUN by Kazuo Ishiguro
- JACOB WONDERBAR by Yours Truly
- Where to start a novel
- First page do’s and don’ts
- Openings to avoid
- What about prologues?
- Two reader-submitted first page critiques
- Are there rules about what needs to be in the first five pages?
- Where should you start dual timeline novels?
In case you missed it, you can watch the video above. (If you’re reading via the newsletter, please click here to see it).
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You can navigate to specific sections of the workshop by hovering over the time markers on teh video player like so:
Finally, here are some more first pages-related resources:
- How to get started writing a novel
- Where to start Chapter 1 in a novel
- First Page Critiques
- Five openings to avoid in a novel
- All about prologues
- Don’t let your opening cement in your mind
- Give your protagonist a mini-quest before the main plot kicks off
- Everything you need to know about inciting incidents
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