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my novel needs a starting point



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Sun Dec 29, 2013 3:35 pm
Granger2291 says...



these two new each other for ten years before the start of the story, since they were about 8 years old. I'd already put in hints of something more between them, having them always touch and be close to each other, things like that, but I hadn't planned for it to go anywhere until the middle of my novel. Right now I'm nearing the end of chapter two, and I felt something nagging at me to make them come together now.
  





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Sun Dec 29, 2013 5:34 pm
Rosendorn says...



Follow that nagging feeling! It's a first draft; it'll get rewritten a million times anyway. A first draft is where you just get it down and follow your instincts.
A writer is a world trapped in a person— Victor Hugo

Ink is blood. Paper is bandages. The wounded press books to their heart to know they're not alone.
  








As a former (and rather excellent) liar herself, Aru knew that, sometimes, speaking the truth felt like wrenching a thorn out of your side. But doing the opposite meant pretending it wasn't there. And that made every single step ache. It was no way to live.
— Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality