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Starting Can be the Hardest Part: Writing the Opening of Your Novel

Author: Harper St. George

Starting Can be the Hardest Part: Writing the Opening of Your Novel

I recently finished writing my 18th book. To some that makes me a baby writer, but to others it’s seasoned writer territory. Wherever you fall on that scale, I think we can all agree that by book 18 you’ve probably figured out the basic structure of a book and reader expectations for your genre. That doesn’t mean you won’t run into issues while writing. My issue with book 18 was that I could not find the start of the story. It’s the only book I’ve written where I literally moved the first three...

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