Author: Cindy Kay
Date:   11-01-09 16:23

Chris,

On the other hand perhaps you're not starting far enough back. Was yours the manuscript in which the adopted Chinese girl discovers she part of some ancient strange family or something like that?

Sometimes a prologue type of chapter, reguarless of whether you call it a prologue, can be cool to bring in action that occured before the main story timeline.

Also, if this is your story I'm thinking of, perhaps you can cover flashbacks of MC's adoption and idyll childhood as she starts gettting clues she'll need to follow east. Kind of the classic adoptive kid conundrum of deciding how much they're willing to risk with their happy adoptive family to uncover the bio family.