Writing Advice from the Bookshelf–Madeleine L’Engle on Starting a Story

Excerpt from “Where the Story Begins” in Madeleine L’Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life (compiled by Carole F. Chase): One of the things I learned in college was that I usually was wise to start my story where I thought it ought to start and then cut a minimum of the first paragraph. I […]