From my writer’s notebook . . .

unknown grave

Quoting from my journal:   “Start with a day that’s different. Begin your story that way. Put your character in a situation that is unusual for him. Get the reader curious. Make lots of conflict for your character. Help him to solve each problem, but in solving each one, a new and worse one appears until he has to make a sacrifice, which would seem to destroy him. But at the end, it turns out to be a choice whereby he  finds happiness along with a solution to his problem.”