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Which means you're screwed if you haven't introduced him until chapter four.
No rule is 100% all the time. (Except don't bore the reader.) Moby Dick, for instance, doesn't start with Ahab; it starts with Ishmael, yet it seems to have done ok. ;)
A hero must show glimmer of humanity or a flaw in 1st 5 pages. — Don Maass
Which means you're screwed if you haven't introduced him until chapter four.
ReplyDeleteNo rule is 100% all the time. (Except don't bore the reader.) Moby Dick, for instance, doesn't start with Ahab; it starts with Ishmael, yet it seems to have done ok. ;)
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