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Max Griffin, author of Tricks and Treats, Flatland, Lindermont Lovers and more, has written an indepth and invaluable blog about how to create a stunning opening scene that really works. You can read the introduction below – and the rest on his blog.
“Some of the greatest literature of the nineteenth century used an omniscient narrator. This technique places the author–and the reader–outside the events of the story, looking in. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with this approach. However, modern commercial fiction has almost completely abandoned the omniscient narrator. Today, about thirty percent of all commercial fiction uses a first person narrator, while the overwhelming majority of the remainder uses third person limited. The purpose of this short essay is to discuss the latter approach and its consequences for opening a scene in a short story or novel….read more here.”
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