Two takes on getting started

The writing and publishing experts we follow had two posts in the vein of beginnings today.

• At Writer's Digest, author Mark Lawrence describes how he starts (and finishes) a new fantasy series without a detailed map for himself.

And at the Kindlepreneur, Jason Hamilton takes the opposite approach, but also for a first — specifically, he breaks down how to write the first line, first page, and first chapter of a story.

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