Beginnings matter a great deal! I write nonfiction, but they're every bit as important for people like me as they are for short-story writers and the like. I've really turned a lot of my attention to those openings, making it compelling from the start. I use all of these tactics.
Beginnings matter a great deal! I write nonfiction, but they're every bit as important for people like me as they are for short-story writers and the like. I've really turned a lot of my attention to those openings, making it compelling from the start. I use all of these tactics.
Yes I'm a journalist as well as fiction writer and apply all the things I've learned about story structure in fiction to my articles too.