First Page!

Although I'm skipping around in my latest book, still working on plots and plans and evil ways to get my hero and heroine together, I decided I would take a stab at the First Page.   This is what you use to get your reader interested enough to turn the page, and not put it back and go on to the next interesting looking cover.

Resist the urge to be too quirky or cliched here.  You need a genuine interest. Which means ACTION!  Bring them into the world you're creating. No big long descriptions here, write things the reader wonders about. Some intriguing dialogue without reference.  Then give them half the reference.  Make them go "Why?" "What??" "Oh For heavens sake!!"  Emotions will lead them to find out the answers.

My first page is narrated by my heroine, which surprised me when I sat down to write today.  She's watching him, that mysterious man with dust devil eyes. She does a lot of watching, my generic little girl. That's how she thinks of herself, with light brown hair and 10 fingers and 10 toes and a bland body in between.  But she's got qualities down deep and she'll show them to him in time.  Of course he won't realize what he's seeing til later, but boy will he convince her that she's one precious gem of a gal!

Of course he doesn't want to want her. He's a man with a plan.  What plan? Well you'll see! Turn the page!

~ Ann Grey, Writer ~

"Everything is worth writing about and nothing is worth writing about. ~ J. Amsbary