Why Bother Reading?

There is a problem here. You start the story and wonder, before you get to the end of the first paragraph why you are reading it. Fiction writers and editors forget that in most cases, the people who publish small zines are unknown. They forget this completely. People have a reason to continue reading through a boring first paragraph if they know and like the author, but nobody knows some guy publishing in Underground Voices for the first time. If the story does not hold you, why bother reading? Is it that there is so little stuff in the world to read? Is it merely a matter of being charitable to a writer-hobbyist? Why publish something that starts out with words that grab hold of the reader's senses?


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