The Short Story vs The Novel
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
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We have this push and pull of of the motherhood agenda versus the work agenda. So we find out that our main character is going to skip work for the afternoon because she wants to interact with her son's assembly at school. We have a bit of kind of tension at school because she want to be invited to something that the other moms are doing. And we kind of our pages end before we know whether she is going to be invited. okay, so fair amount of conflict there, which is definitely something you want in opening pages. So what was your take on them?
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