Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)

by Lisa Cron

The trouble is that writers often misunderstand the notion of what beginning in medias res means, taking it to simply be a device to plunge us into current action and explain it later.

100% agree - I hate when books start with pointless action