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.
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 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.