Cliches in Beginnings

I’ve been thinking a lot about beginnings as I stare at my revisions for Reapers 3. Mostly because I hate the way this book starts. Which is what revisions are for, after all, to fix what sucks and make it better.

I started thinking about what I liked and what I hated about beginnings in books that I read–because that’s what you do when you’re avoiding working on a book. LOL. Okay, maybe that’s just what I do. But I like learning new things…

Honestly, it’s all subjective, what works and what doesn’t. What’s a cliche and what’s not. Everything I came up with on this list, I’ve probably read and liked in a book in the past. So take this list with a grain of salt, because any of these cliched beginnings can work in the right context.

(As an aside, none of these are how Reapers 3 starts…