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On opening sentences: “If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the kitchen roof, there's no need to first describe the kitchen.”
— James Thayer, Author Magazine
Make sure you aren't so dazzled by the climax and the conclusion of [your] plot that you abandon the conclusion of your character's long internal struggle.
— Elizabeth Lyon, Manuscript Makeover
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.