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Make Your Opening Count

by Nina Munteanu on May 10 • 11 comments

A good opening resonates with the theme of your story; a great opening creatively illuminates that theme with intrigue.

When I began marketing my short stories and novels, I was often puzzled and close to affronted by the request to just see the first page of my work. “I only need to see the first page to know whether...

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