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How to Write a Gripping First Chapter: Fiction Writing Tools, #1
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Learn How to Create A Riveting And Compelling Opening Scene!
This manual offers amazing techniques for creating stronger beginnings and ways to write a page-turning “hook” for your fiction novel. Writers will learn how to make the first five pages so intriguing that the reader won't be able to put your book down, and reveal how you can structure your first scene.
It also includes guidelines and tools for correcting common first chapter problems, and provides comprehensive tips on revision, along with practical guidance on self-editing, which every writer needs to revise like an experienced pro. Plus, tons of helpful examples from published novels with great openers.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5some useful stuff, but far too much of out felt like the author taking the chance to praise her own writing and get you to read lengthy plugs.