How to Write a First Sentence that Draws Readers In

Here’s a great short book writing tip I had to share. After a bit of a false start with her first chapter, Bonnie Leonard returned to book writing class the next week having begun again. She shared a brilliant strategy I plan to try myself:  she asked herself how she could start her book–and each chapter–with a line that immediately drew in her readers. Bonnie’s solution was to write down the first line of 15  books she had around the house and see which ones worked and why. The result? When she shared her first sentences in class, we all[...]