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Hands up, everyone else who's written what you believe in your very biased heart to be a pretty darn good (or at least, very respectable) addition to your genre, but you just...can't...quite...nail that grabs-you-at-the-first-sentence opening hook.
I've now done four different first chapters for an upper MG novel that's otherwise pretty polished and complete, but I'm only getting farther away from my target with each iteration. It really feels like trying to swim to a life raft that I can see bobbing in the water just over there, but the waves just keep blowing me farther away.
Just looking for commiseration from fellow sufferers, but bonus points to anyone with ideas for conquering this particular problem!
I've now done four different first chapters for an upper MG novel that's otherwise pretty polished and complete, but I'm only getting farther away from my target with each iteration. It really feels like trying to swim to a life raft that I can see bobbing in the water just over there, but the waves just keep blowing me farther away.
Just looking for commiseration from fellow sufferers, but bonus points to anyone with ideas for conquering this particular problem!