EPISODE · Mar 30, 2022 · 22 MIN
You Have Five Pages, The Tenant by Katrine Engberg, to Tell Me You're Good.
from You've Got Five Pages...To Tell Me It's Good · host Jean Lee
The first chapter can make or break a reader's engagement with a story. We as writers must craft brilliant opening pages in order to hook those picky readers, so let's study the stories of others to see how they do it! The first pages of The Tenant by Katrine Engberg are...well the first THREE pages are marvelously done. I was lulled into impatience following an elderly character, but by the end of the third page we made the "grisly discovery" promised in the blurb and I found myself happily corrected on pacing. Then the next two pages happened. So this story's start is something of a mixed bag. Feel free to connect with me on my site jeanleesworld.com to voice your agreement or disagreement on the matter. I love when we writers talk craft together!
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The first chapter can make or break a reader's engagement with a story. We as writers must craft brilliant opening pages in order to hook those picky readers, so let's study the stories of others to see how they do it! The first pages of The Tenant by Katrine Engberg are...well the first THREE pages are marvelously done. I was lulled into impatience following an elderly character, but by the end of the third page we made the "grisly discovery" promised in the blurb and I found myself happily corrected on pacing. Then the next two pages happened. So this story's start is something of a mixed bag. Feel free to connect with me on my site jeanleesworld.com to voice your agreement or disagreement on the matter. I love when we writers talk craft together!
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