The First Two Pages

Every Tuesday, a mystery writer explains how he or she faced the challenges of those brutally difficult–and vitally important–first two pages.

Quack and Dwight: The First Two Pages

Travis Richardson I think it might be best to start out by putting the first 2 pages of my JEWISH…

Michele Lang I have the basic elements of a story opener in my story “Sucker’s Game”–a character, in a setting,…

B.K. Stevens All beginnings are hard. –Talmud All right, so I didn’t actually read that sentence in the Talmud. I…

Alan Orloff Ah, beginnings. What could hold more promise than a blank page? What could…

Dave Zeltserman SOMETHING’S NOT RIGHT is one of my ‘bogusly autobiographical life in writer’s hell’ stories, which are stories featuring…