Letting the Story Be Bigger Than You
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
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Themes in a Book Review
CC: I feel strongly that you should pick a different starting point. Right now the first pages are catching up the reader on how Dan got to live in the boat,. offering context on all the things that I covered in the summary, right? Like the boats history, the surroundings, the family. These details are also hard work as they involve a lot of research. And I often spend one day of research only to use little sentence of that research in the novel itself. But in my opinion, they don't belong in the query letter. You should weave them in later in scene after scene. A scene in which Dan has a goal, an obstacle, tension, and then a shift is
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