Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-9041013-20180824132506/@comment-35711173-20180824225818

You got to get them to stay with the story long. A dry ooening three paragraphs isn't the way. This is no novel. It isn't a novella or a full size short story. You can afford to take the time to build rather than do a quick fact dump. Besides, do 100,000 word novels start like that?