Maria Villanueva - Story Openings from "Happy Ever After"

Here I've provided an example of how I go through radical revision/rewriting.  For this story, I was truly stuck when trying to write the opening chapter, so I started over a couple times.  As you read each example, notice how the world I was writing about become more developed with each draft.  I started by trying to write about the setting - by the final draft, I was beginning to reveal the essential character details necessary for a good story...