There’s so damn much pressure to have it be perfect. Even more so, perhaps, than just about every other piece of your book. And it isn’t that I disagree with this sentiment – not exactly. While I don’t know if any one spot of a novel is more important than another, I know that if I don’t hook my readers, they’ll put the book down and not pick it up again.
But is it so extraordinarily important that I am agonizing over one damned sentence? Not the scene. Not the chapter. Not even the paragraph.
One stupid sentence.
Do you have this same issue, or is it just me? I still haven’t nailed mine down, though I’m working on it.
(yes, by working on it I mean anything but…)
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I am also fixated on that first sentence, Laura. If I get it ‘right ‘ the rest just flows, if I don’t, writing feels like carving granite with cooked spaghetti!
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Yes!! This is it exactly!!
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