There is no 'right' way to begin a novel, but for me, plot has to wait. The character comes first.
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I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters.
I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not?
I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person.
In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought.
With any character you portray, you can never play the end in the beginning. You have to pursue and attack your intention as if they're going to be successful.
Everything you write makes you better. But if you really need a tip, here's one: a good story begins in opposition to its ending. That means you work out how it finishes first, and then begin the story as far away from that point - in terms of character development - as you can.
If you're gonna start a story, you start from the beginning, right?
There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.