Guest Bloggers

How to start your book . . . not with the weather, not with a dream . . .

and not with “my name is.”  So . . . how could you, how should you begin your novel? Guest Blogger, Bryn Donovan, writes about: What Happens on Page One: 30 Ways to Start a Novel. Note: This post contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Note from Marlene:  Edited for brevity. Scroll down for link to original post. Bryn writes: Even when you have a basic idea of your story, sometimes it’s hard to know where to begin it. One of the best things you can do with your first five or ten pages is to get readers to care about what happens to your main character (or one of them.) In my opinion, and in the opinion of most editors, a prologue that only serves as backstory is generally a bad idea. It makes a novel feel like it’s taking too long to really get started. You can weave…