I'm writing a new novel and I always struggle with openings. For anyone familiar with story structure it's everything in opening image, normal world bascially up to catalyst. I'm a plotty writer, if not much is happening I struggle not to let the story dawdle. So I'm looking for books similar to the one I'm writing that have good openings (forst 8k lets say) and hopefully continue to be good I guess.
The book opens with a death then the catalyst is another death which leads the main character to take his three siblings and leave town, at which point there is a lot more plot and atomsphere and the ball will really be rolling.
by Miserable-Distance19
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*The Owl Service* by Alan Garner
We have always lived in the castle