What Every Novel First Page MUST Have

It's often said that we need to hook our readers by the first page, but how do you do it? Find out how to write the first page of a novel to keep readers reading!
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Jessica Brody is the author SAVE THE CAT! WRITES A NOVEL as well as more than 20 novels for teens, tweens, and adults, published by Simon & Schuster, Random House, Macmillan, and Disney Press. Her books have been translated and published in over 23 countries and several have been optioned for film and TV. She is the founder of the Writing Mastery Academy, an innovative online learning platform for fiction writers.

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[@BudsCartoon]

I use Mario Puzo's The Godfather as a "go to" for writing. First page, the funeral director at court during the sentencing of the two men who raped and attacked his daughter. He is a tiny character that appear only once after Chapter 1. The paragraphs end with the men getting a suspended sentence and him being angry and saying, "For justice, I will go to (main character)."

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What does the term 'gotten' mean? No one has been able to tell me.

[@Blackfoxparadox]

wow i accidentally did that on the first page.