Story beginnings are hard. Start too early, and readers are bored. Start too late, and readers feel like they can’t catch up. So what’s the best place to start? For one possible answer, check out my blog post on the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers blog: “Why ‘Fashionably Late’ Is a Great Way to Begin.”
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Top 10 Ways Not to Start a Story, Part 2 – RMFW Blog This Week
This week, I’m diving deeper into why some story beginnings may not work well for your book. Please click here to check out my article on the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers blog: “Top 10 Ways Not to Start a Story, Part 2.” As always, I’ll see you back here on my own site in a […]
10 Ways Not to Start a Story – RMFW blog this week
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 […]
Breathing Life into Lackluster Beginnings
By Kelley Lindberg Beginnings. They aren’t easy. You’d think they’d be. After all, that’s where every story starts. How hard can it be, really? You just jump in a start telling the story. But many potentially good stories are stabbed through the heart by the dull wooden stake of a lackluster beginning. The problem with […]
