Getting Drastic
- by ria, on Friday, 11th February 2011, 11:24amIn case any one is interested, I just cut the first 5 chapters from book 1. It doesn’t get exciting until then. Now I need to come up with 15,000 words of a more exciting start for this book.
Why are beginnings so hard? I guess it’s because so much has to be introduced, and at the same time it has to be well written and engaging.
I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and working on my query has really made me see how dull the first five chapter were. Now to come up with something better.
tags: action, editing, introduction, opening, rewrites
category: writing
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Barry
says:Maybe you can put those initial chapters in the middle somewhere. Or use them as the basis for another story altogether.
14th April 2011 at 12:14pm |ria
says:I probably will use bits of it later on, and work other bits into the new start.
14th April 2011 at 12:28pm |