First Chapter Checklist

Your first chapter has one job: make the reader unable to stop. Agents, editors, and readers alike decide whether to keep reading within the first few pages, and this checklist makes sure yours holds up.Inside you'll find 30 targeted checks across 7 sections: The Hook, POV & Voice, Tension & Stakes, World-Grounding, Dialogue, Pacing & Structure, and Polish & Craft. Each item is a specific, honest question you can check off, or can't, which tells you exactly where to revise.Perfect for querying writers, workshop submissions, or anyone doing a final pass before sending pages out into the world. Delivered as an editable, print-ready .docx.

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