Unlocking Success: The Surprising Secrets Behind Getting Chapter Two Perfectly Right
It sounds like the next two and a half chapters are not a bang. It appears that they’re a flashback, and a very long flashback. That can be okay, as long as the flashback is as exciting as the first chapter.
But it can be a problem if the flashback isn’t exciting.
Why? What’s the problem?
The First Chapter is a Promise
The problem is that a slow flashback wouldn’t be delivering on the promise made in chapter one.
Chapter one of your story tells your reader that your novel is a certain kind of book. It’s a promise that all or most of your chapters are going to be “just like the first one, only different.”
