Wendy ParciakTHE FIRST LINE.
Do you spend a lot of time crafting it into the perfect hook?
Some come to me right away; others I have to work at. But not too much - or they start to feel overdone, almost tropish in their attempt to be "hooky."
EH Lupton@wendyparciak No one will ever write a better opening line than the first line of One Hundred Years of Solitude, so I just try to have a good first two paragraphs instead of putting that kind of pressure on myself.