Crafting the best first line for your story can be a challenge. Learn how to analyze your favorite published first lines in order to improve your own.

Learn how to write a compelling first line to hook your readers and keep them turning the pages by digging into a scene that starts with a bang.

Openings are so important in a novel, to hook the reader and keep them reading. The WITS hostesses share opening lines from our WIPs and ask you to share yours!

 Stephen King reflected on the magnitude of a novel’s first line. “An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story,” he said. “It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.” Preach it, Steve. I’m not saying a killer first line will get you an agent, get your book […]