There are many ways to open a story. There is the clever line and there is the dynamite explosion. The opening scene of your book should show the reader what kind of story you're going to write. Opening with that blast of dynamite means the story should continue in that fashion. Think about the stories you've read and remember the opening scene. Sometimes they're slow and sometimes fast. After you look at this does the writer continue the story in such a way that the opening whether explosive or not follows through.
There's nothing more boring to read a story that starts with a car chase or some other fascinating event only to find the story becomes perhaps a sweet romance story or a funny story. The reader will feel disappointed.
I look at my own storyes and how I've begun them and I'm more for the moving into the story kind of events. The openings of my stories take time and many revisions. When I was writing Code Blue I began with the heroine first and that didn't suit me. Then I started with the first death and that didn't suit earlier. I finally began with the villain and some of his planning and madness. This is felt sure waas the place to begin.
So when starting that opening scene make sure this will point to the kind of story you are writing. From the first sentence until the end of the scene keep remembering what the tone and type of story you are writing.
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