Writing your first chapter

Demystifying a few first chapter essentials so you can stop tearing your hair out

Oh the dreaded first chapter, that insatiable beast that keeps writers up at night revising single word choices and deleting and re-writing the same sentence ad infinitum.

For anyone writing a first or second draft, I hope I can alleviate some angst by telling you that this isn’t a problem to solve at this stage! Write your story as you know it now. You’…