How to Start Your Book: ’In Media Res’ or with a Wide Lens

WriterSpark: Business, Creativity, and the Craft of Writing

Episode 29

In this craft topic episode, I'm talking about different ways to begin your book, scene, or chapter: 'In media res' or with a wide-lens view.

Have you ever thought about the opening scenes of movies? If you pay attention, you will start to notice how they often begin with a sort of wide-angle view of the world in which the story takes place.

A QUICK LOOK AT MOVIES, BOOKS, and COURSES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Star Wars, Episode IV
• Flour in the Attic (https://amzn.to/3pQZxpN)
• Ender's Game (https://amzn.to/46W3P02)

• Murder in Devil's Cove (Pippin Lane Hawthorne) (https://amzn.to/3raRg0q)

• Pleating for Mercy (Harlow Cassidy/Magical Dressmaking Mysteries) (https://bit.ly/MagicalDressmakingMysteries)
• Kneaded to Death (https://amzn.to/3tQCLNE)
• Gone with the Wind (https://amzn.to/3Dg50JU)
• Ready, Set, WRITE! Self-paced writing course (https://bit.ly/ReadySetWRITE)

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