Write Novel's First Line To Guarantee Sales

Summary: Start your writing with conflict if you want to guarantee sales, grab an agent or publisher, get paid a big advance. Your protagonist wants something and your antagonist wants to block it. If you want to be the publisher's star-of-the-month, just hand out a strong dose of conflict right up front. Bold like. Then, they're wrapped up in your story and it's too late for them to escape. Trust me, readers, agents and publishers are going to consider writing with a strong dose of c...

Start your writing with conflict if you want to guarantee sales, grab an agent or publisher, get paid a big advance. Your protagonist wants something and your antagonist wants to block it. If you want to be the publisher's star-of-the-month, just hand out a strong dose of conflict right up front. Bold like. Then, they're wrapped up in your story and it's too late for them to escape. Trust me, readers, agents and publishers are going to consider writing with a strong dose of conflict as good fortune for their company. Readers will not want to put it down. The big boys just might pat you on the head and pay you a six-figure advance. As conflict is so essential to good writing, whether it's fiction, or nonfiction, children's books or memoir, it will aid your attention-getting cause. I suggest you start practicing the art of writing conflict right now for your openings. Read the examples and write your own: