A Great Opening Line Promises a Great Novel

It’s up to you to deliver the story that satisfies, compels and entertains

Mickey Hadick
Story Stories
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3 min readFeb 26

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I wrote a novelette (10,000 words) last year and dragged my feet on submitting it. There aren’t a lot of places that take stories that long, and it was a new genre for me: fantasy.

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Mickey Hadick
Story Stories

Novelist of suspense, sci-fi and satire. A student of the art and craft of storytelling. Expert on creative productivity, web publishing, and dirty limericks.