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August 12, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is the most difficult part of your artistic process?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I first read this question, my thought was “But it’s all hard!” However, that wouldn’t make a very good blog post, so here we are.<\/p>\n

After giving it some thought, the answer was simple. Beginnings. It’s hard to find the right place to start, whether it’s a book or a blog post. Often it takes me three or four tries to write the beginning of anything. (It took me three tries to get this far!)<\/p>\n

Unlike the advice in song from The Sound of Music, Do_Re_Mi, stories don’t always start from the beginning. They need to start at some point that will draw the reader in. How bad would it be to have every book start with the birth of the main character?<\/p>\n