Sequence 1 Set-up Foreshadowing & Challenge
Grab the reader and set up the book in 10k words = the hero, the world, the stakes and the conflict.
- Grabs/seduces reader (line 1, page 1 (first 8 sentences))
- Convey my voice
- Establish the world
- Introduce a likeable but flawed hero
- What value is at stake? (what is it about / theme)
- Foreshadow conflict (intro the unlikeable but not plastic antagonist)
- Throw down the Gauntlet