(Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle)
You know it when you read one.
"It was a pleasure to burn."(Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451)
Your eyelids raise.
Your mind brightens.
Your lips form "Wow."
You get giddy.
"In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street."(David Markson in Wittgenstein's Mistress)
You're hooked.
"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins."(Vladimir Nabokov in Lolita)
And it all happened within a breath of a few words.
How do you write an opening that hooks the reader
and nails her to her seat?
We're about to find out!
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