Tag Archive | beginnings
Let’s dance the last dance
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
Four short poems Let’s dance the last dance And fill out arms with roses. Let’s take the colours of the dawn, And pour them into sunset’s ocean. ? On the edge of tide and time, I reach out and touch your face, Damp with feather-soft spray, Capturing this moment,…
6 Tips To Hook A Reader on Page One
Originally posted on Carly Watters, Literary Agent:
I’ve read thousands of “page ones.” Very often I don’t read page two. Sometimes all I read is that first page and I make judgements based on what I see there. As an agent and a reader my practice is that if I’m not connecting with the material I…
How It Begins, Continues and Ends
Originally posted on The One & Only Elgon:
The beginning of a book has the illusion of being easy but next to the ending it can be the most difficult part to write. Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve always found the middle of a book the quickest write. You see – you know the characters…
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