(Beth Turnage) I’ve written a number of posts on Quora on writing and thought I’d curate some here. You can call it laziness, but really it’s a lack of time, since ghostwriting is keeping me very busy. Really. 😉
When writing, how do you grab your reader’s attention as quickly as possible?
How do I do it?
I bring the reader into the story as quickly as possible. I answer the questions who, what, when, where, why in the first paragraph. This means no long moody passages about the weather or vague impressions about feelings, or any of the awful beginnings that beginning writers are prone to pen.
But I’m not the only one. Plenty of first-rate writers do the same thing and here is an excellent page to see the first sentence of their books:
