/lit/ - Literature

>>20704117
What actually is F Gardner level recognition? Unreal mentions him as a success but I never understand in relationship to what. Even if I got lots of anons to get my book it still seems like it'd be niche enough to not be very deep. I haven't done the market research though, so maybe I'm underestimating the power of autism bucks.

>>20532222
https://mrewert.edublogs.org/files/2016/03/skeleton-13v0hv5.pdf

>>19276653
You should change the intro, but that scene might fit somewhere in the story. If it doesn't just throw it in a writing trunk somewhere. Chapter 1 of a story should reflect the kind of story your about to tell to give the reader expectations on the mood, themes, what might happen, all those kinds of things. That being said, you don't have to write it first. If you have a general idea and then get more specific later as the story comes together, that is fine too.
You don't have to be overly gory in the intro, but establishing gothic setting and language and showing signs of death or deadly monsters or objects can be telling for the reader.