Posted on September 23, 2019 at 4:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Your setup scene isn’t always the first scene in your book, but — as its name suggests — it definitely kicks off your book’s action.

You’ll likely introduce your protagonist and his or her sources of conflict here, and the catch is, you can’t afford to take dozens of pages to do so.

Learn which details will quickly connect your reader to your protagonist in C.S. Lakin’s post on successful setup scenes.

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