After some talking with my brother about hooks to draw a person into reading a story, I decided to make some changes to my first book's chapter order. The Mad Hatter's statement to Alice in Through the Looking Glass of "start at the beginning, and when you've reached the end, stop" doesn't really work well for storytelling. In story telling, you typically start in the middle and then fill in the back story. This provides the "hook" for the story by baiting it with all of the action transpiring in the first chapter.
I've thought about it for some time now, recalled several stories that I've read in the past and how they began their tales and I have to agree: most of my favorite stories began in the middle and filled in the back story as they went along. For someone that is just starting writing stories, I think it best to follow the rules before I decide to break them.
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