Writing Excuses 10.16: What Do I Do With All This Blank Space?

Published: April 19, 2015, 10 p.m.

b"The first page is often the very hardest one to write. In this episode we talk about how to fill the space on the first few pages of your story, because those are the pages where you have to convince the reader to keep going, and the very first page is often the only chance you have to get the reader's attention at all.
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