I don't know why, but I feel as though this needs to be stated. My manuscript is meant to have a different...structure. It starts out with a cliche, sure I know, but unlike most stories that have a cliche I'm using it to further the story. What cliche is that? The "starting a story with a nightmare" cliche (however the main character suffers from nightmares that constantly happen, and this happens constantly in the book) and I know that editors loath books that begin with nightmares.
Next is the beginning ending with a fight in it, I decided to have a fight scene early in the story to show skills and traits about the main character. Specifically to show that even though he knows how to fight, he isn't unstoppable. I wanted to use it as a chance to weaken the main character to cause conflict, and to open up more possibilities for certain situations.
Next is a personal thing, and that is I'm debating if I should post more than the first three chapters, I'm tempted to go further than that, enough so that I'm tempted to put in the entire "first act" which is the main character's backstory (which is currently at 17 chapters...Really screwing around with the "Hero's Journey." The things that happen after the main character leaves their village are happening before the main character inevitably leave their village.) The "second act" probably won't be 17 parts wrong, but it's meant to establish what's currently happening to the main character before the beginning of Book 2, Tales of Draclo Lake: The Age of Defiance.
Ok, I think I got everything I wanted to state at the moment out.
