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I am starting my fantasy-story with a 20-sheet long opening chapter. As I am going to sometime in the future send the story to a publisher, I am trying to make the introduction chapter as good as possible.
My doubts are in the structure mostly. I start off with the main character slowly advancing through a scenery, while describing in his mind what he sees and basically giving the details of the entire setting, world and recent events. He doesn't actually do anything that important until the end of the chapter.
Would you think that the reader finds the way of "nothing happening, only explaining" in the beginning unpleasant and bad even? Does that sort of opening ruin the entire story?
The scene is basically: main character is taking a chariot-ride to trough a city to a murder scene, where he starts working. At least half of the chapter is the ride through the city, where the character sees and describes everything.
My doubts are in the structure mostly. I start off with the main character slowly advancing through a scenery, while describing in his mind what he sees and basically giving the details of the entire setting, world and recent events. He doesn't actually do anything that important until the end of the chapter.
Would you think that the reader finds the way of "nothing happening, only explaining" in the beginning unpleasant and bad even? Does that sort of opening ruin the entire story?
The scene is basically: main character is taking a chariot-ride to trough a city to a murder scene, where he starts working. At least half of the chapter is the ride through the city, where the character sees and describes everything.