Openings – Don’t Be Afraid to Start in the Wrong Place

Last time, I talked about knowing where your book should start. I figured I should follow the ‘show, don’t tell’ rule and come clean with the first opening of my first draft of my first book. Here’s the original, unpublished (and I’m sure you’ll be able to tell why) opening to what evolved into Finding Sarah.

And note: even though the original version sucks like a vacuum cleaner (including the dreaded “self-description via mirror”), the information in it was necessary for ME, to get to know S...