Agents Suzie Townsend and Joanna Volpe are doing “First Page Shooter” on their blog—participants submitted their first page and the agents are giving feedback on them. And FPS#3 (by Josin McQuein) hits it out of the park with voice. The first line:
Killing someone’s easier than you think.
It’s amazing how different that is from:
It’s easier than you think to kill someone.
Or
It’s easier to kill someone thank you think.
Okay, so maybe people in the publishing industry are the only ones who’d notice the difference, but each line seems to say something different about the speaker.
What do you think? What kind of person writes each of those?
Photo by Douglas Walker
Very, very good point. Thanks for sharing about the first page shooters.