There are basically two ways you can start a
story. You can have all guns blazing action or you can establish the ordinary
world of the character before things change.
Both approaches have their pros and cons and a
lot of it depends on various factors to do with your story and what you
consider to be right for you as a writer. But the problem comes when you show
your first chapter to someone else and they don’t react in the way you’d hoped,
making you lose confidence in what you had thought to be quite a good scene
that set things up nicely.
Questions arise such as maybe the other approach
would be better for this story, for this genre, for you as a writer. But the
truth is these are the wrong questions. So if the start of your story isn’t attracting
the kind of response you want, what are the questions you should be asking
yourself?
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