Nikki Trionfo

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Author Nikki Trionfo hosts #50FirstChapters Webinars for advancing writers and other writerly videos for Storymakers Tribe. When your reader scopes your first chapter, imagine it like he’s trying to get a date. Does he pick the cute girl studying in the corner, or the gal who announces she’s new in town, has tickets to a hockey game, and is dying to try the local food rave? You know the answer. He goes for the girl who’s ready to live a new story, and yes, he goes for a first chapter that promises the same. Plain old good writing isn’t enough for a first date, er, chapter. Have you organized the flow of your story to advertise early your most interesting characters, your coolest action scenes, the deepest irony of your premise? Is it depressing to invent all that coolness and figure out how to show it off in the first 12-20 pages AND set up a story arc, theme, and inner conflict at the same time? No way! Come learn how openings are just the beginning.