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Guest Post: Cecilia Galante on Where to Start Your Story?

Guest Post: Cecilia Galante on Where to Start Your Story?

Posted on March 2, 2015January 4, 2019

Cecilia Galante

By Cecilia Galante

One of the things I’ve noticed my graduate creative writing students struggling with is where exactly to start in a book.

I’ve had two students fill up the first 40 pages of their novels with excruciating back-story details involving family history, blood-lines, place of birth,

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