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as you know yourself, and the writing process takes on a new ease and flow which will embrace the reader with pictures that they in turn will embrace.

BEGINNING, MIDDLE, END.

Having decided the story line, and the little twists and turns that take your reader through the paths of your novel, cleverly from chapter to chapter, making a beginning, middle and end become easier. The writing stage is the culmination of all the materials to be used in the creation of a story. Imagine starting a tapestry with no materials. Each of the elements described above contribute to the gathering of textures, silks, colors and authenticity that makes your written tapestry show it's glorious colors to the reader as a complete and unquestionable tapestry of words.

When you have the materials, all that is left to concentrate on is the creation itself, leaving the writer without distraction, writers block or lack of ideas during the course of the work of putting words together. There are those who say that the first page is the most important of all. Of course it has importance, though what keeps readers interested is realization that it is the entirety of the book that has importance, and that the middle and end, are the parts which keep the reader coming back for more.

Weakness in a storyline that shows up in the third chapter is equally likely to make a novel sit on a shelf rather than be read, and there are more novels which are half read than those put down upon reading the first page. Readers want their money's worth and will even pass a mediocre beginning to give the story a chance to warm up. If the writer has taken the above stages of envisaging their storyline and characters, then the beginning should reflect the writer's enthusiasm for their writing skills and respect for the readership, and be followed by chapter upon chapter of work which enthralls, temps, teases and leads to a final scenario that readers remember and respect in return.

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