On Agent Kristen's blog she talks about writer's who start their story in the wrong place, people that have talent but do not yet know that they have started with backstory, that they are not moving their story forward, ect. Apparently this happens a lot. Do you think that you have started your story where it really begins? Are you just putting your characters in situations that have nothing to do with what your story is really about? If you think that is a possibility you might want to read her post.
It makes me wonder how many agents reject because of this and if I might have a problem with the same thing. So I have made a note to myself to pay close attention to what my characters are doing and making sure the beginning chapters matter just as much as the rest.
How many of you watch where you start your story? How many of you start with your actual story? Do you know if you are moving your story forward? Can you tell when you are including too much backstory?
This may sound like something quite simple to avoid, but almost all writers fail at this. All the more reason for us to make our manuscripts shine, beginning and end.
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