Zechariah 14:9 "And
the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord,
and his name one."
The first paragraph needs
to capture a reader’s interest. For fiction, it should set the tone for the
story.
Fiction might begin with
one word of dialogue, but in the next paragraph it needs to orient the reader
about who, when, and where. Nonfiction has several ways to write that first
paragraph, too.
Newspapers want all the Ws
answered: who, what, when, where, and an introduction to the why and how that
becomes the body of the article. Other nonfiction first paragraphs might be an
anecdote or a question—anything that will get a reader hooked enough to
continue reading while also being a crucial part of the article and not just a
trick.
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