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There is a nineteeth century literary technique called "the Germ".
Imagine a plant, starting as a small insignificant seedling, planted into the soil/ an idea or image planted into the mind of your reader.
The "Germ" is a scene created by the author in the first chapter the grows and evolves throughout the entire novel, until by the end it has successfully weaved itself through the entire novel.
The question you have to ask yourself is, do you have something, a singular image, that you can weave throughout the entire story.
Another thing which may help you is this. Write your first chapter, just write until you find your stopping point, and then put it aside for a few days, maybe even a week. After this time pick it up again and edit, edit, edit. Imagine that the first words you put on the page a merely a skeletal frame that you will build upon and fill out. you may be surprise how good some of the things you have written really are, and how new ideas will flow from what you have already written.
Good luck,
-Fugi
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Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
-T.S. Eliot
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Anyhow, any advice, input, or opinions would be ever so much appreciated. Thanx.
