Introduction (1/100)
To begin can be so hard. You must decide: do I start happily? suspenceful? sadly? You may even decide to omit an introduction and just plunge into the meat of the book.
You ask yourself, "If I say this, will it give the reader too much information I do not wish to have?" "What if I say the wrong thing, and they stop reading before the beginning is over?" "How do I draw them in?"
With all this muddle of worry resting on the beginning, you wonder why you should have one. Some stories would be better without one. Of course, you then how no clue what's going on, making the intro of a story the most pivotal part.
You can get rid of the ending --cliff hangers are all the rage. You can even get rid of the middle --if they don't know what's supposed to be there, they won't miss it. But the beginning... the beginning sets the mood, introduces the key facts you have to know. To exlude the introduction of the story... that is to take away the foundation of the writing.
All this pressure. So much drama. You can get so wrapped up in deciding how to start that sometimes, you can end up not even writing at all.
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