Novel Kicks Writing Room: To Start Not At The Beginning

Welcome back to the Novel Kicks Writing Room. 

Many of us have heard of the saying, ‘let’s start at the beginning.’ I thought it would be interesting to approach our stories at a different place.

‘Two friends fall out within the story.’

Taking this premise, do the following –

Start the story at the beginning – instead of the beginning, wrtie a section from the end of this story. How do you see this premise ending?

Start in the middle – write a section from the middle of the story – from the heart of the action.

Conflict – write a scene that details the actual falling out. If you like, you could write from one point of view and then write it again but from the other point of view.

If you have a work in progress, feel free to use that rather than the premise above.

Have fun.

 

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Laura
I’m Laura. I started Novel Kicks in 2009. I wanted a place to post my writing as well as give other writers like me the opportunity to do the same. There is also a monthly book club, a writing room which features writing prompts, book reviews, competitions, author interviews and guest posts.

I grew up by the sea (my favourite place in the world) and I currently live in Hampshire. I am married to Chris, have a cat named Buddy and I would love to be a writer. I’m trying to write the novel I’ve talked so much about writing if only I could stop pressing delete. I’ve loved writing since creative writing classes in primary school. I have always wanted to see my teacher Miss Sayers again and thank her for the encouragement. When not trying to write the novel or writing snippets of stories on anything I can get my hands on, I love reading, dancing like a loon and singing to myself very badly. My current obsession is Once Upon a Time and I would be happy to live with magic in the enchanted forest surrounded by all those wonderful stories provided that world also included Harry Potter. I love reading chick lit. contemporary fiction and novels with mystery.

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