https://writersinthestormblog.com A Blog On Writing Sun, 12 Jan 2025 04:35:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://writersinthestormblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WITS-Logo-150x150.jpg https://writersinthestormblog.com 32 32 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/07/how-to-write-an-opening-scene-that-hooks-readers/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/07/how-to-write-an-opening-scene-that-hooks-readers/#comments Fri, 05 Jul 2019 11:02:53 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37664 Janice Hardy Readers may not judge a book by its cover, but they will judge it by its opening scene. An opening scene has but one job—to establish the story and convince readers to read the next scene. That’s a lot to ask of a single scene, but it’s not as difficult as it sounds. […]

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