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Honestly, a random comment at a library in Austin made me scrap my whole first chapter
Ngl, I overheard a writer say 'start with the car crash, not the packing' about their own work, and I realized my opening was all setup. Anyone else get a single piece of advice that just rewired a story for you?
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jade7385mo ago
Yeah, the "history lesson" thing... I read this book once where the first chapter was just the main guy's morning routine, making coffee and thinking about his dead wife. I almost put it down, but then chapter two opened with him finding a body in his trunk. Always wondered why they didn't just start there.
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mila_king226mo ago
That "start with the car crash" line hits so hard. I had a beta reader tell me my fantasy prologue was just a history lesson and to just drop the reader into the market brawl instead. Threw out ten pages and it was instantly better. Why do we always think we need to explain everything first?
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