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Ignite Your Reader’s Imagination with the Inciting Incident

Capture your readers’ hearts and minds with a spark that grabs the reader. Learn to create an inciting incident that ignites the reader’s imagination.

Published May 17, 2023
Categorized as How To's, Writing Tagged Author Lynette M Burrows, beginnings, How to plot, Pantser vs Plotter, story structure

Hooked

Once upon a time . . . it was tradition to begin a story with those words. Today’s reader wants to be hooked. The reader will accept that “once upon a time” opening only for a certain type of story. Regardless of the genre or style of fiction, the beginning of the book is critical.… Continue reading Hooked

Published April 22, 2013
Categorized as Reading, Science Fiction, Writing Tagged beginnings, books, fiction, hooked, Lynette M. Burrows, openings, Science Fiction
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