Greetings!

So I've read lots and lots of "how to begin your book" and "your first chapter" articles from bekindrewrite, Natasha Lester's website, Laura Mizvaria's old blog here (pssst! her new blog is here) just to name a few. And I think I wrote my first scene today!

Since there's SO much back story that will be revealed throughout the book, I've discovered that writing from beginning to end is going to be pretty much impossible for me. In my jumbled mind, the story will bounce around time (you know, from 2012 to 1881 to 1645 to 1998 and so on), but with the plot making sense and always moving forward. Right.

Originally, I had everything saved in one file, putting the scenes in what I thought the final order would be. Welp! After scrolling up and down trying to find a place to start a new scene (in the past or present, didn't really matter, I scrolled anyway!), I decided to keep two separate files. One historic and one modern.

I really have been trying to keep my mind in creating the story, but my dumb editor's brain is really really loud and wants to drown out my writer's brain. It's a struggle, let me tell you. So, even though my writer's brain is currently winning at the screaming contest, the editor in me has decided to softly ask the nagging question: How are you gonna start this?

And I think writer-self finally has an answer for editor-self. In the first 150 words I placed A and D in a place (yes, yes. I know how ridiculous "placed in a place" sounds, and I'm calling my main characters A and D) and by the end of 880 words, I've introduced my breakthrough conflict idea from last week, and exposed their secret to the reader.

Dance with me!