Treasures

Author's name: Hessa Al-Abdulrazaq

“A simple desk in the corner of the room, with a dim lamp at its edge, filled with crumpled papers, dozens of pages that Shadia tore from her notebook before completing the first line. Nothing is more difficult for a novelist than the first pages. He has to condense the words that indicate the general atmosphere of the novel and attract the reader to complete it to the end. The first pages either make him a fan of this writer, or turn him away from his writings forever! The avid reader who became attached to novels until she ended up as a novelist, which is not at all surprising for any reader, to head towards the world of literature, which made her attend a fair number of online courses, search the internet for the basics of writing, and read books on the techniques and styles of the novel, to realize that the matter seems like “the easy but impossible.”