I've been rewriting the same opening scene for the last week. I think I finally have it. I think. Openings are hard for me. I'm on about my 4th stab at this one.
Given your Jani books, I don't know how you can write a first scene until the book is mostly done. How else can you get all the roots of your avalanches into the first chapter?
There is something to that. This situation is almost as bad. I know the ending--I usually know the endings. I know how the pov character in this first scene ends up.
It's a question of pacing. When I think I'm going way too fast, it's apparently the right pace for a mystery of the thriller variety. I couldn't go that all out with the Jani books because I had to frontload backstory as well as move the present plot. That really started to suck around book #4.
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Date: 2009-11-05 01:52 am (UTC)Adrianne
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Date: 2009-11-05 03:04 am (UTC)It's a question of pacing. When I think I'm going way too fast, it's apparently the right pace for a mystery of the thriller variety. I couldn't go that all out with the Jani books because I had to frontload backstory as well as move the present plot. That really started to suck around book #4.