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Why does an author have the goal to "challenge [readers] ideologically"? 🤔 How about entertaining readers instead of lecturing or hectoring them? 🤷‍♂️ And making sure that readers understand the nature of the viewpoint character/conflict/setting within the first chapter(s), so readers can delete that Kindle sample if they don't find it entertaining?

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I guess the moral is lead with something nice even if it has to be scenery because all your characters are vampires.

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Give your reader reason to hope and he will clutch at it.

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Lead with something that will attract those readers who will appreciate the rest of the story. Decoy openings are even more repulsive.

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If I ever do write I hope not to be the bait and switch type. It's a long story but a coworker got caught in a bait and switch on a video game and he was totally invested in the character then, boom unnecessary bait and switch. He's still playing but I bet he thinks twice about that company on the next game.

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