Trifecta — “Give us a 33-word opening line to your book. That’s it. Make us want to read the next 333 pages of your work. “
Seems easy enough. Right? (Insert canned laughter here. Befitting of the pop culture reference below.)
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If at first you don’t succeed …
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He woke to the smell of a hot breakfast. Opening his eyes, he saw the walls of his childhood bedroom. The Gong Show desk calendar said 1977. He was 8. “Not again,” thought Henry Beckett, 43.
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One of the many reasons I used The Gong Show as my 1977 reference …
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