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Re-thinking your novel's opening

by Cheri Lasota | Dec 3, 2009 | Discussions on the Craft | 2 comments

In our openings we have this pressure to get all the critical elements in, to set up the story. We must introduce the main character (MC), the antagonist, the setting, the inciting incident, the hint of the main conflict. Notice I used the “must.” This is not perhaps...

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