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Questions tagged [openings]
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Why is "It was a dark and stormy night.." not a good opening?
Also, why has it spawned an award for bad writing?
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How do you drop a reader in the middle of nowhere at the beginning of a story?
My story begins with a little girl waking up in a creepy and probably very haunted house in the middle of nowhere. She has no memories of how she got there, what happened or what the place even is, but she does remember who she is. The main goal of…
user23083
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Does my first paragraph grab your attention?
I'm working on a new M/M romance novel about a guy who's trying out nudism and an experience nudist. Does my opening paragraph succeed in drawing in the readers attention and making them curious? Does it give too much information or not enough?
My…
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Delerium too much like a dream?
My novel starts with the character believing she is outside, naked, because she is delerious. After less than a page she realizes where she really is. She was delerious because she fainted and she is ill--but will it be seen as too much like a…
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