How to Figure Out Where Your Novel Starts

Ideas for finding the very beginning.

Shaunta Grimes
The Every Day Novelist
6 min readOct 11, 2019

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This is one of the hardest things for a fiction writer. And it’s super important, because there’s almost nothing worse than writing a fantastic opening and then realizing it was the wrong opening.

Let’s start by talking about how the first act of a novel usually flows.

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Shaunta Grimes
The Every Day Novelist

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