Comments on: The Secret to an Unputdownable First Chapter https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/the-secret-to-an-unputdownable-first-chapter/ Promote your book to Written Word Media's audience of over one million readers. Read our blog for information on all things self-publishing. Tue, 30 Jul 2024 08:15:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 By: Lynette Lloyd https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/the-secret-to-an-unputdownable-first-chapter/#comment-252188 Tue, 30 Jul 2024 08:15:17 +0000 https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/?p=64455#comment-252188 An excellent article, thank you. I found a few nuggets, including taking account of what the reader wants and expects and writing first chapters in different genres.

]]> By: Grant Shepherd https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/the-secret-to-an-unputdownable-first-chapter/#comment-239025 Fri, 31 May 2024 12:54:48 +0000 https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/?p=64455#comment-239025 In reply to Robert R Gibson.

Glad you found the post useful Robert!

]]> By: Jacob Dennison https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/the-secret-to-an-unputdownable-first-chapter/#comment-238723 Thu, 30 May 2024 00:09:45 +0000 https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/?p=64455#comment-238723 Is it compelling? Is it emphatic? Essentially, these are the two things a good first chapter achieves. Everything else is a gimmick.

]]> By: Robert R Gibson https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/the-secret-to-an-unputdownable-first-chapter/#comment-238633 Wed, 29 May 2024 11:27:54 +0000 https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/?p=64455#comment-238633 This post was unputdownable! Excellent points – and the first from this site that I had to bookmark to come back to! Thank you!

]]> By: Connie Lynn Nash https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/the-secret-to-an-unputdownable-first-chapter/#comment-238530 Tue, 28 May 2024 22:50:14 +0000 https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/?p=64455#comment-238530 This beginning ‘class’ came at a Perfectly needed time for me and is saving me from ruining a perfect night for others and myself. I hope to write the first chapter of my first novella based on your sound and intriguing principles! Kudos and hugs for showing up at just the right time! Except to hear about a partial hummingbird to show up in my novella instead of an angel. Just like YOU showed up this magic evening toward the end of May!

]]> By: Nikoo and Jim McGoldrick https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/the-secret-to-an-unputdownable-first-chapter/#comment-238503 Tue, 28 May 2024 20:10:45 +0000 https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/?p=64455#comment-238503 Great summary. Thirty years of writing and publishing and with each book, I still go back to basics.

]]> By: Sally Alter https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/the-secret-to-an-unputdownable-first-chapter/#comment-238501 Tue, 28 May 2024 19:38:07 +0000 https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/?p=64455#comment-238501 Great article. Sadly, my suspense novella does not apply to the rules, even though I had read Gone Girl and Girl on the Train. I shall have to reread them.

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