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Create engaging characters and put them in situations with high stakes.

The characters in your first chapter (or prologue) don't even have to be main characters. They don't even have to survive to the next chapter. But we have to care about them, and we have to want to find out what happens next.

This also counts for villains: If you create a villain who commits a terrible act in the first chapter, we'll keep reading to make sure the villain gets punished.

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: Where in the writing process do you work in subtext? In the BBC Sherlock fandom there are many lively discussions about how a lot of the story takes place in subtext: Person C is a "mirror"

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