Nailing Your First Five Pages with Tracy J. Jones

These critical first pages are a perfect bite-sized appetizer that sets the stage for your entire memoir or novel while leaving your readers hungry for more. Editor, content writer, and writing coach, Tracy J. Jones, offers you her tips, tricks, and tools to make the best first impression in your first five pages.

By looking at the beginnings of popular memoirs, Tracy will provide a roadmap to crafting an introduction that excites and entices your readers not just to buy your book but keep reading until the very end.

Topics include:
• The different type of introductions
• Grounding your reader
• Creating tension
• Being bold and doing it quickly
• What’s your question, goal, or want?
• Starting your character arc
• Setting the tone and voice of your memoir
• How to use a flashback as your hook
• Demonstrating that the reader is in good hands

Date | Sunday, February 13 from 10 a.m. to noon

Location | Online via Zoom

Register here!
Members: $36
Non-members: $42

For more information, please visit sandiegowriters.org/nailing-your-first-five-pages-with-tracy-j-jones or call (619) 696-0363.