How To Begin Your Story
August 17th, 2011 | Beginnings, Characterization, Plot | journalpulp | 3 CommentsEstablish your setting early on. Give us The When, The Where, The Weather — the overall tone. Is your story happy, soft, somber? John Steinbeck does this so well in the beautiful opening of Of Mice and Men: A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and […]
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