Real Life Diagnostics: Would You Continue Reading This Opening?

Critique By Maria D'Marco

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 questions:

I have no clue at this point if it would make a reader want to continue, if it has too much backstory, and if Nettie comes across as someone a reader might want to know more about.

Market/Genre: Crime Novel

On to the diagnosis…

Continue ReadingWritten by Janice Hardy. Fiction-University.com