Writing a Novel - The Queen of the Night

The first pages that you write are not the beginning of the novel. They're only where you started writing the novel. In particular, what i had was an opera singer on a circus train,. She's just retired from her career on the stages of europe. And so the question i had to ask myself was how did she get on that train? How did she end up in the circus? Where was she from? Who would she have studied with and so on. I built the story and the plot both in the process of interrogating that scene again and again with questions. Each time that i got answers, asking more questions and pushing back into the story as far as it seemed i