Where do you begin and I start?

Kristin Nelson’s, “Starting A Novel In The Wrong Place,” is a good read.  It’s humorous in that I’m certain she’s thinking to herself, “Shit… nothing changes.”

The two main issues displacing the proper start?

  1. Back story
  2. Minutiae (overelaborate “set-the-stage” before the story really begins)

If you’re thinking to yourself after reading the above, “Check, and check,” you might want to put your pencil down, and toss out the first few pages.

3rd May 2010
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