Real Life Diagnostics: Would You Keep Reading This Middle Grade Mystery?

Critique By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy

Real Life Diagnostics is a weekly column that studies a snippet of a work in progress for specific issues. Readers are encouraged to send in work with questions, and we diagnose it on the site. It’s part critique, part example, and designed to help the submitter as well as anyone else having a similar problem.

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This week’s question:

Is this opening working?

Market/Genre: Middle Grade Mystery

On to the diagnosis…

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