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Fatal Backstory

“She stopped and remembered her home town and how it felt to be ten years old when she moved. . .”

I checked out two books-on-tape yesterday and tried to listen to them. The first one started at a certain point, then immediately went into a flashback, within the first page. Ditto for the second.

Yes, these are published books; they are books-on-tape. But I didn’t make it through the first chapter of either.

Fatal Backstory and Flashbacks

The best explanation of why this type opening is fatal comes from Continue » »

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