worse yet, if there’s no mention of what the character’s doing.
setting: this might only be one word, one line, one paragraph or this could be more. to me the setting it important at the beginning. i like to know where the character is. are they in a city, in the country, on a mountain or in outer space? this helps me figure out what kind of story i’m reading.
do you follow any guidelines for opening your story?
conflict is so many different things. it can be not being able to do a simple function in life and frustration takes over to a full out battle scene. that hard part for me 