Mectojic
Minstrel
Hi all.
My fantasy work is a multi-PoV work, with 7 PoV characters. My series is mostly about political and military struggles, but also incorporates a little magic. Through the PoV characters, I capture the minds of 7 very, very different individuals, who think differently (with different writing styles for each), so the audience sees the effects of the war on different people.
I'm stuck on an introductory chapter. I want the chapter to be related to the rest of the story, but I don't want it to be absolutely direct - as in, I may use a different random PoV to begin, who dies at the end of the chapter (yes, ASOIAF copying). The event that occurs should happen before anything else, and needs to be able to capture the audience, since it is introductory.
So how do I set the scene for the audience with this chapter? They need to know that this is a fantasy book mostly about war, with a little magic, a little romanticism, some religion, some aristocratic things, some badass people...
Leave suggestions And I would LOVE to hear what your introductory chapters look like, if you could describe them in TL;DR fashion.
I feel like many writers get the intro done first, as implied. I thought I had mine, but it felt weak, and not a good "welcoming" opener, especially since I want the book to be readable by children.
My fantasy work is a multi-PoV work, with 7 PoV characters. My series is mostly about political and military struggles, but also incorporates a little magic. Through the PoV characters, I capture the minds of 7 very, very different individuals, who think differently (with different writing styles for each), so the audience sees the effects of the war on different people.
I'm stuck on an introductory chapter. I want the chapter to be related to the rest of the story, but I don't want it to be absolutely direct - as in, I may use a different random PoV to begin, who dies at the end of the chapter (yes, ASOIAF copying). The event that occurs should happen before anything else, and needs to be able to capture the audience, since it is introductory.
So how do I set the scene for the audience with this chapter? They need to know that this is a fantasy book mostly about war, with a little magic, a little romanticism, some religion, some aristocratic things, some badass people...
Leave suggestions And I would LOVE to hear what your introductory chapters look like, if you could describe them in TL;DR fashion.
I feel like many writers get the intro done first, as implied. I thought I had mine, but it felt weak, and not a good "welcoming" opener, especially since I want the book to be readable by children.