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There is no shame in starting over. Or not outlining. Or writing slowly. Or using clichƩs. Or writing multiple projects at the same time.
You are in charge of your own writing journey. Itās up to you which path to take, and none is less valuable than the other. You do you.

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How to Write an Engaging First Chapter
I probably get this question every day, so I think itās about time I did a post on it. Many writers are concerned with writing their first chapters and they have trouble figuring out what they should include and what they should leave out until later.
When youāre submitting a manuscript in order to get an agent or find a publisher, itās important that you hook them from the opening paragraph. A lot of agents have admitted that sometimes they ONLY read the first few sentences and if theyāre not intrigued, they wonāt read the rest of it. That might sound cruel, but why should they continue to read something that they think is boring when there are so many other stories in their āslush pileā to read? You need to engage the reader right from the beginning if you want them to care about your novel.
I learned this the hard way. The first few stories I wrote lacked an engaging opening. I think the best way to learn is to revisit some of your favorite books. Most of the time, they had something that caught your attention right away. There was something to it that made you keep reading. You need to make sure you have āthat thingā in your own novel.
Here are the dos and donāts of writing an engaging opening hook:
Do:
Construct a scene that best represents your character
Iām not going to tell you thereās a wrong and right way to open your novel, because it really all depends on your novel. You need to know your character before you can begin writing your story, so only you will know how you should start it off. The best advice I can give is to construct a scene that helps us best understand your character. If theyāre on the run, show us that theyāre being chased. If theyāre sad and lonely, construct a scene that lets us feel their isolation. You donāt necessarily need to open your book with action, but you do need to introduce the conflict. Think about what your character wants and go from there.
Help set the scene
The first chapter is a good time to explore the setting of your novel. Youāre not going to use this chapter to completely describe your world, but you need to give your readers a taste of it. Use all your senses to present the setting to us. What does your character feel? Are they afraid? Are they happy? Are they cautious? Putting emotion into your scenes from the beginning will not only help set the tone, but weāll get an immediate understanding of your world.
Introduce only important information
The first chapter is not the time to give us a long, drawn-out explanation of your world and characters. You need to find the simplest and most exciting way to get information across to your readers, so that theyāll be hooked from the beginning. Get your audience to care about your story. Donāt drag it down with details that donāt matter yet. Think of your first chapter as an introduction to an essay. You donāt go right into the points immediately, but you set us up for something good.
Donāt:
Describe your main character in detail
We donāt need to know everything about your main character in the first chapter. We donāt need to know everything about what they look like, their best friends, how they would describe themselves in the mirror, etc. If you want to do these things, theyāre best left for later chapters. Your readers do not need to know everything from the beginning to get into your story. Give them a taste and draw them in.
Give long explanations
When writing a scene, itās easy to get caught up in everything that you want to talk about all at once. You have to remember that youāll have time to explain things later and it will probably be much more interesting if your readers have to wait. You donāt need to mention everything thatās happening and why itās important. Present the information in the most engaging way possible and avoid these long explanations. We donāt need you main character to make a page long speech in the first chapter of your novel.
Fill your readers with unnecessary back story
Again, too much back story in your first chapter will kill your momentum. Anything thatās unnecessary to know from the beginning can be put off until later. I know itās exciting to get into the meat of your novel, but your readers have to care about your world and characters before you keep talking about it. Donāt be afraid to cut something or push something back to later chapters. Youāll also improve the pacing of your novel if you keep these things in mind.
Itās super important to remember that all of these things wonāt apply to every novel. There are times when the opening of your novel will break all these rules and there will be exceptions to every single one of them. However, if you keep getting feedback that people ācanāt get into your novelā; it might be because your first chapter is weak. Also, if youāre having trouble with your first chapter and canāt seem to get it right, leave it for later. You can always go back and change something if you donāt love it.
you can explain why itās important for aspiring authors to read published books and not just fanfiction without condescending to fanfiction authors/readers and implying itās inherently of lesser quality
like a lot of fanfiction is genuinely good and well-written! thereās some amazing work there! there is absolutely fanfiction out there thatās the same quality as well-written published works. being likeĀ āwell, itās cute, but itās not real writingā is just dismissive and frankly completely untrue.Ā
but, at the same time, there are a lot of reasons itās important to also read published works, and those reasons arenāt justĀ āitās betterā. for one, a lot of writing original fiction involves introducing oneās own characters and setting to an audience who knows nothing about the characters or worldbuilding, which is generally not something youāre going to learn how to do by only reading stories where you already know the world and characters. that doesnāt mean the work isnāt good; it just means it doesnāt teach all of the skills youāll need to know when writing
im a lifelong fanfic writer, but one thing fanfic wonāt teach you is how to end a story. or how to structure one, really. fanfic is itself a continuation of a story, itās a transformative work, and⦠itās kind of rare for long, chaptered fic to actually be complete. itās awesome when it is! but you do kind of get used to reading fanfic as a big nebulous cloud of what-ifs, and furthermores, and so ons, and etc.
published fiction pretty much always has to have a start, middle, and ending. you canāt really learn formal anatomy from fanfiction. you can learn a lot of creative stuff that published fiction rarely has the freedom to engage ināaus and remixes, for instanceābut fanfic really isnāt where youāre going to be able to study structure and discipline.
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