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If you're worried too much about action, but can't place any in the opening, use foreshadowing to garner interest and anticipation. Though I'm very poor at it, I personally like to snare readers by making them interested in the characters themselves, then slowly transitioning into the heart of the action. Plenty of authors tend to meander through a few chapters without diving into the thick of things. I just finished a book that took about half of it's pages to do so. Now, that book did a bad job of it, as I was never really interested in the setting or the characters, but it's a common method and works fantastically when done correctly. A good batch of characters, an interesting setting, or something in the writing (humor, enthralling detail, mystery, ect) can keep an introduction quite interesting without diving into the heart of a story.
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