Humorous Openings I think that comedy and drama go hand in hand and, clearly, I’m not the only one. (BTW, this post is part of ...

It seems to me that there are six general ways to open a story. The first way, as I discussed last week, is with description . The sec...

Openings are frustrating. At least for me. So much is riding on them. Often, if you don’t catch your reader’s interest with the first...

In previous posts I've written about Stephen King and how his prose possesses the almost magical quality of being able to draw me i...

1. Action Begin with action, movement, danger. According to Christine Fonseca in her fabulous article, Three Elements of a Great Open...