This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

I hope you enjoyed this week's episode

Seven Tips for opening your story in Medias Race.

In Medias Race is the useful but sometimes tricky writing technique of beginning your story in the middle of things. At its most basic, this is simply a solid reminder to begin your story with something happening.

This might be action in the traditional sense, but it might also just be the character moving toward a scene goal.

However, in Mediase race can cause confusion for writers who feel pushed to either manufacture

action for their opening scene and or open late in the story in a way that

compromises the structural timing.

Last week we discussed some of the confusion that can surround in Medias

race and particularly how to balance beginning in the middle with the need for a

solid first act that properly sets up the rest of the story. This week I want to take a closer look at the technical side of Inmediaries

so you can better use it to craft gripping opening chapters that immediately pull readers in to the most interesting parts of your story.

One of the main confusions about enmadeous race is that using it seems to require writers to craft opening scenes stuffed with hardcore action and perhaps even with the main conflict already in full swing.

Obviously the former doesn't work at all in certain types of story and as noted the latter is

extremely problematic from a structural perspective.

In Medias race, however, comes in many different flavors.

In fact, most stories well open with some form of an medios race, even if it isn't the full-blown type we often

think of in which the hero is already embroiled in some theatrical crisis.

As shown in some of last week's examples,

such as Pride and Prejudice,

beginning in Mediase race is as simple

as opening with the characters having just peaked their own curiosity about

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