Justina Ireland; @justinaireland, March 13, 2018 Writers, gather round. Let’s talk about openings. Most especially: establishing scenes and the promise of the story. The promise of the story is the aboutness of your book. Not necessarily the theme, it’s the point of the story. At some point the conventional wisdom became that writers should start their stories as close to the inciting incident as possible. And while true, that doesn’t mean you… Read More