FORGET THE RULES !! LETS GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT !!

There are entire blogs and even books, probably, about how not to start your novel. One rule that has been floating around for years is:

“Never start a novel with dialogue.”

Guess how I started my very first romance novel, my 2008 Golden Heart finalist manuscript?

“You are planning to murder me, aren’t you?”

Lost in Love

I could plead ignorance, as I was utterly clueless about writing at that point. No one had told me the rules. I didn’t even know there were rules. So I just wrote...