Finch: A Primer on Novel Openings (Please Chime In)

>>This is the second post in a continuing series on craft centered around discussion of my novel, Finch.

Sometimes the most complex effects rely on simple decisions. If you don't put thought and effort into such decisions, the foundation of your novel is flawed and nothing you build on that foundation will be truly sound. (See Vladimir Nabokov's Cornell lectures, which discuss things like the floorplan of a house in Jane Austen's work, for example.)

In Finch, I had several decisions on how to b...