Tasha Kaminsky Full disclosure: I struggle much more with endings than beginnings. My approach in fiction is to establish a…

Travis Richardson I think it might be best to start out by putting the first 2 pages of my JEWISH…

Michele Lang I have the basic elements of a story opener in my story “Sucker’s Game”–a  character, in a setting,…

B.K. Stevens All beginnings are hard. –Talmud All right, so I didn’t actually read that sentence in the Talmud. I…

Dave Zeltserman SOMETHING’S NOT RIGHT is one of my ‘bogusly autobiographical life in writer’s hell’ stories, which are stories featuring…

Robert Lopresti When I wrote the first two pages of my new novel I had three goals in mind —…

Mark Troy The Maltese Falcon opens with a quick description of Sam Spade (“a blond satan” and “steep, rounded slope…

Earl Staggs To draw readers into a story, I try to reach into their heads and get a good grip…

Robert Mangeot Problems. Every writer has them, not least an opening that grabs a reader by the eyeballs. Setting, mood,…

Anthony Rudzki I joined the Fantasy_Writing group on Yahoo in June of 2009. I had always thought about writing and…

KM Rockwood Many of the characters in my stories are very real to me. They have minds of their own.…

Anita Page July 7, 2015 Damned If You Don’t (Glenmere Press) is a dark traditional mystery set in the Catskills.…

Susan Furlong I love to read. I’m also a busy mom, so I don’t have much time, or patience, to…