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Author Selgin, Peter, author.

Title Your first page : first pages and what they tell us about the pages that follow them / by Peter Selgin

Publication Info. Florham Park, NJ : Serving House Books , 2017.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1852711~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  808.02 SEL    DUE 04-30-24
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Description 365 pages ; 21 cm.
Note Includes index.
Summary Your First Page is unlike any other craft book on writing. It is based on the premise that almost everything that can go right or wrong in a work of fiction or memoir goes wrong or right on the first page. The book grew out of an experiment for which writers submitted nearly one hundred anonymous first pages of works-in-progress for analysis. The experiment proved two things: that first pages function like canaries in coalmines, forecasting success or predicting trouble. They establish the crucial bond between writer and reader, setting us off on a path toward the heart or climax of a story, or they fail to do so. The experiment also demonstrated that from first pages we stand to learn most of what we need to know to succeed as authors.
Subject Authorship.
ISBN 9780997779790
0997779799
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