Can you start a book with a death?
I'm currently writing/planning a new book. I wanted to ask if it's possible to start a book directly with a death below.
Is that too harsh? I mean, you should always start with something exciting or with "puzzles" and such…my story isn't really based on this death, but it's going to happen anyway.
You can write your book as you want.
Helix – You will replace us by Marc Elsberg, for example, starts directly in the first sentence with the death of the U.S. Foreign Minister without a long excuse. This then plays an important role in the further action.
If the character is somehow important for the action and the other characters, the reader should build a bond to the character, but the character must first be built up.
Except: It’s a crime or the dead is just to make the action run. If the “person” of the dead doesn’t matter, and it’s only about someone dying then you can write it in the first sentence.
Go right into the full
Considering that “The last of us” was/is a mega horny game, and when daughter Sarah died, I’ve been crying like anything else… go right into the full! It’s best to write a prologue where someone dies.
One of my books begins with the disappearance of the mother of the protagonist. The second begins with a hunt and hardly they are in safety, then it comes to erotic ebony hot, but not yet to what the reading might want to read. It is both adolescent novels and I think that everyone prefers to be thrown into action rather than reading an endless, boring set of descriptions.
you should give the reader a conclusive connection for the story
A book can quite begin with everything. The question(s) is (are) just: Does it lead to history? Does the reader look through? Is it exciting? Is it a plot of history?
Did you hear anything from Krimis?
Of course, I’ve also read some criminals, but I don’t write so