“You can’t just start things off right smack in the middle. Readers won’t have context for what they’re seeing, and thus become confused. Whatever literary effect you’re trying to achieve will be lost on them, both in the initial confusion and in the latter stages of having stopped reading”
“So what you are saying is, Tolkien style worldbuilding through the most literal historical exposition possible?”
“Gods no. Books should be brave enough to begin somewhere after the literal creation of the world”
“That sounds very much like a middle to me”
“You know what I mean”
“How about endings?”
“Oh, you definitely should not end before”
More longer friend see that sky? 