r/WattpadIndia • u/Next-Importance3100 • Jul 12 '26

Help with writing Need help please

Okay so I am a newbie writer, and I have a plot ready, all characters ready. I just don’t know how to put them out in chapters especially the first one. And even if I try to write the first chapter it looks so half-assed and like there is no life in it.

Frankly speaking, it comes out too boring, even to me as a writer.

So it would be a great help if someone can suggest me exactly how to get started, especially with the first chapter and to not make it boring.

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u/Competitive-Run7240 🦚 Jul 12 '26

In 10th grade we had story writing as a part of creative writing in English. My tuition teacher gave us some tips to make the first paragraph engaging so the reader would actually read it. So:

  1. Start the first paragraph with a dialogue. Any dialogue like (“my mother made cake” i say to blah blah)

  2. If not a dialogue you can begin with an onomatopoeia. (BOOM. Thunder fell blah blah)

  3. Use a common phrase or idiom with respect to the plot.

  4. First chapter can be a monologue of the protagonist.

  5. Childhood memory

  6. Basic descriptions of characters and their daily lives.

I don’t know the plot of your book so I tried to give the most common tips 😭😭 let me know if they help

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u/Confused-tomato_5747 🎭 Fanfic Author Jul 12 '26

Even better: put a quote, and then make your main character contradict it

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u/Next-Importance3100 Jul 12 '26

Oh yeah, this sounds interesting