Action

Fellow scribblers in my fiction group keep whittling away the beginning of the novel I'm writing. First they said "eliminate the Foreword". Then they threw out the introduction. They agreed the first chapter had to go. Finally they said, "Just start with the action." Ray Rhamsey seems to agree. If only I a had bunch of good cat pictures like his! The post is a very amusing illustration of a pertinent point about starting with strength.

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