How Not to Write Scene-Setters in Your Novel

by Matthew Wright I started reading a novel the other day and choked on the first three paragraphs, which were a kind of double-flashback sequence filled with ‘had beens’. I paraphrase: “…it was now…there had been…had been…had abruptly…had been…had they…had… had been…had they…he would…he had not…had grown…had happened…had summoned…” It didn’t get going with … Continue reading How Not to Write Scene-Setters in Your Novel