Tasha Kaminsky Full disclosure: I struggle much more with endings than beginnings. My approach in fiction is to establish a…
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Tasha Kaminsky Full disclosure: I struggle much more with endings than beginnings. My approach in fiction is to establish a…
Continue reading →Travis Richardson I think it might be best to start out by putting the first 2 pages of my JEWISH…
Continue reading →Michele Lang I have the basic elements of a story opener in my story “Sucker’s Game”–a character, in a setting,…
Continue reading →B.K. Stevens All beginnings are hard. –Talmud All right, so I didn’t actually read that sentence in the Talmud. I…
Continue reading →Alan Orloff Ah, beginnings. What could hold more promise than a blank page? What could…
Continue reading →Dave Zeltserman SOMETHING’S NOT RIGHT is one of my ‘bogusly autobiographical life in writer’s hell’ stories, which are stories featuring…
Continue reading →Wendy Hornsby The most challenging part of writing a story, whether it’s a short-story or War and Peace, the Sequel,…
Continue reading →Robert Lopresti When I wrote the first two pages of my new novel I had three goals in mind —…
Continue reading →Mark Troy The Maltese Falcon opens with a quick description of Sam Spade (“a blond satan” and “steep, rounded slope…
Continue reading →Earl Staggs To draw readers into a story, I try to reach into their heads and get a good grip…
Continue reading →Robert Mangeot Problems. Every writer has them, not least an opening that grabs a reader by the eyeballs. Setting, mood,…
Continue reading →Anthony Rudzki I joined the Fantasy_Writing group on Yahoo in June of 2009. I had always thought about writing and…
Continue reading →KM Rockwood Many of the characters in my stories are very real to me. They have minds of their own.…
Continue reading →Anita Page July 7, 2015 Damned If You Don’t (Glenmere Press) is a dark traditional mystery set in the Catskills.…
Continue reading →Susan Furlong I love to read. I’m also a busy mom, so I don’t have much time, or patience, to…
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