WIP Diagnostic: Is This Working? A Closer Look at a YA Fantasy Opening

Critique By Maria D'Marco 
WIP 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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Submissions currently in the queue: Two

Please Note: As of today, critique slots are booked through Jan 16.

This week’s question:

1. Does this opening work?

Market/Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

On to the diagnosis…

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