Aug 30 • Davi's Stuff
Random recollection (writing advice received)
Rather obnoxiously, way back when I wrote my first novella (A sci-fi by the name of "Defying Gravity"), I emailed it to a well known Australian author. They had zero reason to reply at all, let alone with advice. And yet they did.
The advice was....
"Swap your first two chapters around. Your first chapter is boring, because I'm not invested in any characters. Your second chapter, with a character in peril, is a much better start, and a reader is more likely to make it through your info-dump afterwards."
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