Tips on engaging the audience in the first chapter?
What are some tips you would recommend to immediately attract a reader, or make the story interesting enough to continue reading?
I want to know if there are any specific techniques or ways that you can create interest in a multitude of different situations so it wouldn't matter if the world is shrouded in mystery and unexplained, or 'info-dumped', although the techniques can relate to these specifics if needed.
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Create engaging characters and put them in situations with high stakes.
The characters in your first chapter (or prologue) don't even have to be main characters. They don't even have to survive to the next chapter. But we have to care about them, and we have to want to find out what happens next.
This also counts for villains: If you create a villain who commits a terrible act in the first chapter, we'll keep reading to make sure the villain gets punished.
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