He resides in the Bonita suburb of south San Diego where he lives with his wife, a Linux server, a closet full of comics, and around 200 anime DVDs. The opening of your novel or short story is crucial. It must be well written, catchy, and evocative. Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, your opening doesn't move the story forward in the proper manner. This may not be a shortcoming in your writing ability, but a reflection of an improperly framed narrative.
Many people think of their stories as written in stone.
In their minds, the narrative doesn't exist outside of the bounds they've chosen for the beginning and end. This can blind the writer to structural possibilities that might be helpful during a rewrite. Sometimes the story is simply lacking context that might be provided by a scene that comes before the writer's current story beginning. Writers are not drones. We invest ego in what we create.