Unlocking Success: The Surprising Secrets Behind Getting Chapter Two Perfectly Right
After writing an amazing first chaper in your novel, is it okay to switch gears in chapter two? What’s allowed and what’s not allowed? Will agents freak out, for example, if you switch from present tense to past tense? Or slow the story down with a flashback?
Joe posted this question on my “Ask A Question For My Blog” page:
Dear Mr. Ingermanson,
I’m writing a novel in first person, present tense. It starts off with a bang, an exciting chapter. That chapter ends with the main character (who is in a terrible spot), hiding in a room, where memories start coming back to him of how he got there.
