The Most Important Sentences Of Anything You're Writing #writer

The most important sentences of any paragraph, of any section, of any chapter, of anything that you're writing. The most important sentences are the first sentence and the last sentence. So you want to think of these as the bookends. Your first sentence is really important because that's what motivates the person or the reader to go, "Yes, I want to give you my attention." So your hook has to be really compelling. But the very last sentence is the last thing that they're left with. So you also want the last thing that you say to either open a new loop in the reader's brain, create more curiosity, or leave them with something that is thought-provoking or leave them with this feeling of resolve. They committed to giving you their attention, and now they've carried themselves all the way to the very end, and you don't want to just not give them anything to end on. You want the last sentence to be just as impactful as the first sentence. So whenever I sit down to write something, I actually don't write linearly. The very first thing that I do is I write a V1 of the first sentence and the last sentence because those are my bookends. I know where I'm starting and I know where I'm going, and then we fill in the middle.