Eminent Empire – ch1 (a dark fantasy side project, yes, I know, I shouldn’t, BAD RUZ NO BISCUIT)

Okay so I KNOW I have a novel due in 3 weeks. And I KNOW I have two other books (Rust 4 and Cemetery Dogs) that’re aaaaalmost ready to launch and I should be putting my spare time into them. And I KNOW that I won’t have time to work on this seriously for another year or two. AND YET I WROTE IT. And I need your help. This opening chapter is made of two scenes: a wide-perspective introduction to the world & current conflicts, and a close-in view of three assassins sneaking into a besieged city to kill a king. I’m keeping both scenes. My question is – which comes first? Start wide, then pan in? Or start close, and pan out? I’d love your opinions. If you’ve got five minutes, help a guy out? —————————————— CHRISTOPHER RUZ – EMINENT EMPIRE (WORKING TITLE) CHAPTER 1 Drop a smooth white pebble into a bowl of water. Watch closely. It all passes in a heartbeat. The pebble punches through the water’s surface and a crater forms, rippled, spreading outward toward the rim of the bowl. As the crater expands, the pebble vanishes, swallowed, plunging to the bottom. It leaves a void behind, a tunnel of scar tissue through fluid. Don’t blink. Not yet. The second law of natural physics states all things echo. Bone and stone, light and thread and steel and sound. The void left by the pebble fills. Water rushes to occupy the space. It spears upward, a finger of […]