Your first page is your chance to make an impression. While your story has to be strong enough speak for itself, your first page has to be strong enough to draw people in and keep them reading.
There’s a lot to be learned from the First Pages Clinic. Even if you don’t submit your own first page, reading through the entries there can give you a very good sense of what sorts of things work, what doesn’t work, what creates the right kind of questions in a reader’s mind, what grabs someone and what doesn’t. The advice offered to the submissions is very good advice, worth reading and keeping in mind even if it might not be directly applicable to your project. It will get you thinking about how to approach your own writing in a tighter, stronger and more polished way.
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