How can a human Interested in reading books…
What is it about a story that catches anyone’s attention and convinces them to continue reading?
What is it about the opening of a story that tells them that they are in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing and where they are going and that there’s a good chance that they are going to enjoy joining them on their literary journey?
The People must grab the writers’ style by the throat with the first paragraph or all is lost.
Let us observe the following unusual and misleading story by a Great Author, "James:
There was a shark in the kitchen. The shark wasn’t huge, maybe four feet long, gliding across the linoleum toward the refrigerator.
Tony stood motionless in the knee-deep water of the dining room. The Wolfman said that the only sharks that came this far in were bull sharks, which could live in either salt or fresh water, and were highly aggressive.
Tony leaned forward cautiously and shut the door to the kitchen. He had known the exact time and date of his death for most of his adult life. With only hours to go, he wasn’t about to let the shark do something ironic.
Clearly a shark in the kitchen is an unusual situation. It may even be a life-threatening one, but the author has also managed to show us that something even more dire is lurking in the pages ahead—and he does so with a bit of wit as well.
One has to read further to figure out what the clues mean, but these are the sort of cues that make the people want to turn the page and find out what’s in store.
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