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media res

Opening in media res

October 11, 2017October 6, 2017 / coldhandboyack / 55 Comments

Hi gang, Craig here again. In my last post, we went over the opening to your book. The nutshell explanation is to take it easy with the volume of characters, make the reader care, and introduce a problem. I wanted to include starting in what's called Media Res, but that's a bigger post. Now here … Continue reading Opening in media res

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