And that's exactly what you want to do if you hope to write novels and short stories (
even nonfiction articles) that sell — grab your reader's attention in the very first sentence.
Not exact matches
Layton's
article suggests English language arts teachers don't have to chuck favorite novels or stories to incorporate more
nonfiction in the curriculum,
even though that's what many have done.
I was a magazine journalist who had written a few
nonfiction articles about Maine game wardens, and one Saturday morning, I started noodling around with a short piece of fiction — not
even a story, just an anecdote — about a rookie warden and a marauding black bear.
I have never much liked Brin's science fiction and I'm
even less a fan of his
nonfiction ruminations, but the
article that Mal Adapted linked to is a pretty good essay on the difference between genuine skeptics and the faux - skeptic deniers.