How to Write Stories That Grab Your Readers by the Throat

And leave them wanting more

Dayton Parks

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Woman shouting. How to Write Stories That Grab Your Readers by the Throat.
Image by Tumisu from Pixabay

“Always grab the reader by the throat in the first paragraph, send your thumbs into his windpipe in the second, and hold him against the wall until the tagline.”― Paul O’Neill

Readers want you to grab their attention and never let it go. If you write fiction, they want to feel dread, anxiety…

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Dayton Parks

Published in The Ascent, The Writing Cooperative, Illumination-curated, Writers’ Blokke.