Bad Starts to Good Stories – On the RMFW Blog

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. I wrote about overused openings you may want to avoid for the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers blog. Check it out by clicking here: “10 Ways Not to Start a Story.”