Firsts In Fiction: First Line Hooks, Hints & Help: Writing With Excellence Series - Softcover

Gansky, Aaron D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1938499352 ISBN 13: 9781938499357

Publisher: Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas, 2012

Synopsis

Admit it: you’ve gone to your local book store, picked up a book, and skimmed the opening page. Don’t be ashamed. You’re not alone. Now, as a writer, ask yourself this: if a casual consumer picked up your story, your novel, what would they think of your first line? Scary thought?

If you’re a writer, chances are you’ve been stuck on how to craft an opening line. This book can help. Analyzing some of the greatest first lines in fiction can help us find the techniques the masters used in creating some of the most enduring lines in literature. But more than just a simple analysis, this book will show you how to compress things like character, conflict, voice, and setting into a line that will embody an entire work, and immediately establish your authority as a writer.

After reading this book, you’ll have the confidence and tools to craft a first line that will make editors and casual consumers stand up and take notice. And regardless of the words you choose to use, your first lines will say, very loudly, very proudly, “This is a book you have to read.”

About this title

About the Author

In addition to being a loving father and husband, Aaron Gansky is an award-winning novelist, teacher, speaker, and podcast host. In 2009, he earned his M.F.A in Fiction at the prestigious Antioch University of Los Angeles, one of the top five low-residency writing schools in the nation. His first novel The Bargain (2013, Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas) was a finalist for the Selah Award for debut novel. Two years later, The Book of Things to Come (2015, Brimstone Fiction), the first book in his Hand of Adonai YA Fantasy series, won the Selah Award for YA Fiction. He has written two books on the craft of fiction; Firsts in Fiction: First Lines and Write to Be Heard (with Diane Sherlock).

Edition details

• Publisher: Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1938499352
• ISBN 13: 9781938499357
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 44