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It is a truth universally acknowledged: you have to hook the reader right out of the starting gate. From the very first sentence your story must incite that delicious sense of urgency that makes readers have to know what happens next. This is because every story, even the most rough and tumble, is emotion driven. If we arent feeling, we arent reading. Thats a tall order. Especially because when we talk about emotion, its maddeningly easy to misunderstand what it really is, and thus how to get it onto the page. Emotion doesnt come from general external dramatic situations, nor is it expressed by body language, nor is it about whether a character is happy, sad, angry or really, really cranky. Riveting emotion springs from the protagonists internal struggle the internal cost of the escalating external decisions the plot relentlessly forces her to make.

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