Are you struggling to write a book? Are you unsure where to start? Are you spending too much time staring at a blank page, not knowing where to begin? I know the feeling!
Writing a book can be daunting! Here is my step by step guide to writing a Wat...
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You're pretty much ready to get started now! But where are you going to begin your story? There's a whole realm of possibilities!
Now it's time to think about your inciting incident. What is going to happen that will set your conflict (and your character's journey towards the end of the book) in motion. You want to start your book as close to that as possible.
If you spend a few chapters just talking about the main character's everyday life, or covering heaps of backstory, it's going to get boring for the reader. It's important to hook your reader in by setting them down as close to the starting point of the character's journey as possible.
In Cupid's Match the story is propelled into motion when Lila finds out that she has been matched with Cupid. So I started the story with Lila walking into the Cupids Matchmaking Service to tell them to stop spamming her. This put her into a good place to be very quickly told that cupids are real and that she has a problematic match who is about to join her school!
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