The First Sentence
I've been doing some research on this, since lets face it, any and all writers who want to go the traditional route of publishing or publish themselves need to have a strong first sentence. You want to grab the reader by the mind, heart and spirit at first glance. You want your book to be that sexy blond haired blue eyed girl that everyone looks at, right till she walks out of the room. The grabber of attention. To any writer, your story is a child, a brain child that you want people to notice. However, attention spans are not what they used to be. There was a time when a reader would accept the long winded description of scenes and the characters in them before anything happened. That is just not the case anymore. The reader wants to use their own imagination implant their own ideas of what things look like, not to be pushed into viewing something else. They want that first line to be one of those lines that tells ...