EPISODE · Apr 13, 2022 · 19 MIN
You've Got Five Pages, Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes, 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 Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes are brilliant. In the first three sentences alone, we have an injured protagonist hallucinating a dead person. By the end of two pages, we find out our protagonist is being interrogated because the rest of the character's crew was murdered...in space! Mystery fills the cosmos here, for we do not know how much we can trust this crew, this company, or the very soul telling us this story. What will you, fellow creatives, make of these first five pages? Let's find out!
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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 Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes are brilliant. In the first three sentences alone, we have an injured protagonist hallucinating a dead person. By the end of two pages, we find out our protagonist is being interrogated because the rest of the character's crew was murdered...in space! Mystery fills the cosmos here, for we do not know how much we can trust this crew, this company, or the very soul telling us this story. What will you, fellow creatives, make of these first five pages? Let's find out!
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