by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I must change the beginning of this novel six times — at least — in one day. I just can never figure out the best possible way to introduce readers to the potentially 160,000 words that I hope they will read.
My heroine has a sleeve tattoo similar to this one on Megan Fox, even if I came up with the idea before she started to sport this “faux?” ink.
While I have a lot of personal theories about how to start a novel, in general, just from my own observations on such things, most pop novels don’t have a “hook.” They just start. Often “in medias res” or in the middle of something happening.
But, I am now hearing conflicting reports about that being the right way to do a beginning. And, yet, I like that type of beginning. I think the best thing to do is to just finish the fucking novel and worry about the details of the beginning for the absolute end of the process.
My heroine looks like Nathalie Emmanuel as I write her.
Just pick a beginning, any beginning and work to finish the novel. I’m not going to live forever and if I don’t get past the first three chapters then I may croak before I finish the third draft.
So. Let’s rock.
