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10 Ways Not to Start a Story – RMFW blog this week

June 15, 2021 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

Opening pages are the gateway into your story. If those opening pages don’t grab your reader (or agent or editor), they’ll slam that gate shut and move on to the next book. You won’t get a second chance to hook them again. But openings are hard, usually because we draft them before we truly understand what the story is ultimately about. For the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers blog this month, I wrote about overused openings you may want to avoid. Check it out by clicking here: “Top 10 Ways Not to Start a Story.”

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