Jane Gorman
Opening lines are tough. The first line of my first book — well, that was a killer. I was rewriting my first two pages after the book had been through a string of editors. After it was formatted. After I got the proof, read through it one more time — and changed the beginning yet again. Not major changes, really. Just changes that (I hope) gave my readers a better sense of who the main character is. What the promise of the story is.
I loved how you explained the parts of the two pages. Fascinating.
Thanks Vicki! BK deserves the credit for coming up with the idea. It’s a great opportunity, though – some say those are the most important pages in the book, they get so much more scrutiny!