Writing No Orderly Process

My novel doesn’t start at the beginning.

Is this an inside writing joke? No.What I mean is the narrative in the book isn’t ordered chronologically. It wasn’t always that way, but when it was in chronological order, the opening chapters of In the Context of Love read like a YA novel. It is not.

I sweatedbullets of self-doubt while doing major scene shuffling in the early manuscript.The hardest part in shaking up the order was finding the best opening. There were four scenes that I thought mi...