How did you start your novel?

by Adrian Sroka
17th January 2014

How did you start your novel? Did you steam in Medias Res on the first page, or start somewhere in the middle? Perhaps you started at the end and worked backwards.

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For the novel I'm prensently writing, I started "ab ovo", classical way, setting the story and exposing the charachters.

I already wrote the beginning of another novel (to be the next after this one) and this time, I started "in medias res", with my charachter waking up from a nightmare in the first paragraph.

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