The Art Of The First Sentence

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For many readers, the first sentence may not seem to be the most important part of the book. But readers generally don’t know how the sausage is made. They don’t look deeper at the mechanics of how a book is written because they don’t have to. A movie fan doesn’t have to know how the film was made in order to enjoy it. A food connoiseur doesn’t have to understand the mechanics behind food chemistry to enjoy a good meal.
But as a writer you absolutely must master the art of the first sentence. The first sentence can mean the difference between a reader reading the next sentence and the next one. If your first sentence isn’t compelling enough to draw your reader in, you run the very real risk of losing a lot of potential readers right then and there without a hope of recovering them even if your story is good.
A good sentence must be compelling, simple, and hint at what’s to come. This only comes with practice, editing, and a lot of trial and error. But where do you start? How do you go from clueless to at least knowing the basics to work and build on?
Well that’s the point of this video! In this video we’ll briefly look at how you can work on writing good first sentences and what the function of a good first sentence is.
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@GerryBolger Жыл бұрын

'The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed' is the first sentence of The Dark Tower series, and it's an amazing introduction to Stephen King's greatest work. We have the antagonist, the protagonist, the setting and basic plot line for the whole first book. It's an astonishingly economic use of words from King. We don't know who the Man in Black is, nor do we know who the Gunslinger is. But because the first book is called 'The Gunslinger', we can assume that he is the protagonist. But why are they in the desert? Why is one following the other? Well, like you said, a good first sentence will make readers want to read the second sentence, and the third, and so on. And it absolutely pays off in this example.

@RavensRants Жыл бұрын

A brilliant example of a well-constructed first sentence!

@krishnakantbhatt9947 Жыл бұрын

Hey mate Glad to see you're making videos about writing as well I've been stuck with trying to get good scripts for analysis videos about the Emperor's Soul, and this video just gave me some of the ideas I needed Thanks a lot for making the video when you did 😇

@RavensRants Жыл бұрын

Happy to have helped 😀