I know I haven't been on in forever. Blogging just kinda took a seat way in the back of my mind for that 4-odd-something-month period. College, scholarships, deadlines, deadlines, deadlines, and well, you get the point. Anyways, I have not forgotten about writing Infected. I do intend to finish it. Actually, right now I'm in pretty good shape. The problem is that I have a really hard time writing the beginning of a story. I always find it...lacking. Either that or I just don't like it period :(
Anyways, I have my characters all mapped out (for the most part). I even played with the idea of a preface, a little teaser or whatever lol. But I really don't know where to start. I mean, there's two points I could start this story, and they basically break down into this: the long way or the short way. One, I start it off with Nathan (the main character) at school, and introduce you to his life before ANYTHING ever happens. This includes a direct view of his relationship with Sarah (other main character, well, kinda lol). Two, I start off with Nathan right in the middle of the beginning of the long series of unfortunate (is that really a spoiler? lol) events, starting with his belief that it is all just a dream that he will wake up from soon. However, I think his relationship with Sarah will need a little bit more explaining.
So thinking about the relationship with Sarah: clear and simple or a little more mysterious and some thinking on the reader's part (not saying that you can't figure it out but I know that those few times I READ books I hated it when things were not stated clearly).
It's very frustrating for me, but maybe that's part of the job as an author? lol. Anyways, I would very much appreciate any, ANY opinions on this. It'll help me think about things better.
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Okay. So...if you begin with Nathan before anything happens, it's kind of slow, and you might not capture the reader's attention. But if you start in the middle, yes, you do capture the reader's attention, but you leave him/her confused. Which is not really a good thing.
Is there a way to make it a nice neutral? The only thing I can think of is to start in the middle and do a whole ton of flashbacks until the reader's caught up to the "present." But that can get messy and confusing for the reader.
Sorry if that was unhelpful. ^^"
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