Apex Writers Group | First Page Writers | Activity https://apex-writers.com/groups/first-page-writers/ Activity feed for the group, First Page Writers. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:46:31 -0600 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.14.4 en-US 30 hourly 2 72dae206d9039fb0091ce2e04ecf42df Nia Du Plessis joined the group First Page Writers https://apex-writers.com/news-feed/p/11918/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:20:08 -0700 0 a5f2c3615d7e8e6581647ea0e97bafc7 Curtis Lind posted an update in the group First Page Writers: An edited first 500 words. Wow, it never ends, does it? https://apex-writers.com/news-feed/p/11830/ Tue, 24 Dec 2024 20:07:02 -0700 An edited first 500 words. Wow, it never ends, does it?

]]> 1 ecaa47e9456c62cb3f3cdf7539db3cd7 Curtis Lind posted an update in the group First Page Writers: Hi, I'm 3 chapters into my first attempt at […] https://apex-writers.com/news-feed/p/11807/ Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:36:19 -0700 Hi, I’m 3 chapters into my first attempt at mystery fiction. It is a murder mystery of a close friend of the protaganist, Smanatha Harper. Though I love the challenge of putting my words on paper, I fear this is a futile attempt to join an already overrun genre. And yet, I continue to write. Feel free to add any advice or constructive criticism.…

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OK cool. Let us know how it goes and give us a sneak peak at page one

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Genre: Fantasy

Below is the first 500 from a short story I’m working on. Any feedback (big or smal) and talks of rings welcome! Also very happy to take a look at anyone else’s words if they’d like to share.

Thanks for taking a look.

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Trolls, as you may have heard, come in all manner of queer shapes and sizes. In an average…

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Glad to, Zachary. That’s what this First Page Group is about.

Keep up the good work … Lou

]]> 888ede2d4e26f840159f4e706b10ebbf Zachary Morgan replied to the discussion Zachary Morgan, Fantasy. First 500 words Prologue, unnamed manuscript. in the forum First Page Writers https://apex-writers.com/groups/first-page-writers/forum/topic/zachary-morgan-fantasy-first-500-words-prologue-unnamed-manuscript/#post-20836 Tue, 09 Jan 2024 00:58:26 -0700 Reply to Zachary Morgan, Fantasy. First 500 words Prologue, unnamed manuscript.

Thank you. That is good feedback.

]]> 9b745a4c21e30993f22e8a49d9bc4924 Lou Schlesinger replied to the discussion Zachary Morgan, Fantasy. First 500 words Prologue, unnamed manuscript. in the forum First Page Writers https://apex-writers.com/groups/first-page-writers/forum/topic/zachary-morgan-fantasy-first-500-words-prologue-unnamed-manuscript/#post-20714 Thu, 21 Dec 2023 23:06:43 -0700 Reply to Zachary Morgan, Fantasy. First 500 words Prologue, unnamed manuscript.

Hi Zachary. Thank you for being brave and sharing your submission. Here are my first impressions, though you should keep in mind that these are subjective. Other readers might view your first page much differently than I.

What I like – Your writing is descriptive, and the setting is vivid. You show early that your commercial genre is Fantasy,…

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]]> 159512c62a4a68f1c3a4c715151ab54f Zachary Morgan started the discussion Zachary Morgan, Fantasy. First 500 words Prologue, unnamed manuscript. in the forum First Page Writers https://apex-writers.com/groups/first-page-writers/forum/topic/zachary-morgan-fantasy-first-500-words-prologue-unnamed-manuscript/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 23:10:54 -0700 Zachary Morgan, Fantasy. First 500 words Prologue, unnamed manuscript.

THE SUN POURED DOWN.

Red sunlight stained the light blue water of the Lake of Life and Death. The light reflected off of small waves which lapped on hundreds of canoes. Thousands had come and waited in silence for what the Sun King had to say. The sun was falling in the sky, and it was almost time for him to speak. His word was the word…

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]]> 5d9d79004546ed9ca1621ff2389bb58c Koko Wolfe posted an update in the group First Page Writers: Writing a memoir and wondering which opening line […] https://apex-writers.com/news-feed/p/8767/ Mon, 12 Jun 2023 20:13:12 -0600 Writing a memoir and wondering which opening line transports you and makes you want to read more?

1) My first memory is of a place made of light.

2) There is a memory I stuffed away. Something I never told anyone. A vivid recollection I didn’t revisit until I had to.

3) All three of them were dead. I walked the grey shore of Miramar Beach, every…

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