: Re: My writing is stiff at the start, I think I need an attitude adjustment My story is raring to be put on paper. But the first paragraph, indeed the first chapter, is stiff as a board. Way

I don't know of any rules which say you've go to write your novel from start to end. I tend to start with a few key scenes - I'll have been playing them over in my mind for a while so they're basically kind of bursting to get out. And then I kind of work my way out from those.

But that might just be me.

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