Sandra Schwab on Nostr: Opening your book with action is good, but you also want to set up the scene and let ...
Opening your book with action is good, but you also want to set up the scene and let your readers know where the heck your characters *are*. Putting some vague clues as to the setting at the bottom of the first page is too late - and yes, even when you write contemporary romance, we need some setting.
Great, one of your characters is walking away from the other? So does that happen in a bar? In a locker room? In an office?? On the street??? On a mountain in the Alps???
Aaaargh! 🙄
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