STORY STARTERS
By Natalie Bright
Empty page = empty mind?
Starting a story is one of the hardest things for me. Ideas are everywhere. I’ve got ideas jotted on sticky notes and outlined in several idea notebooks. Now where to begin?
Here’s a list of several ideas to jump start your word count (hopefully):
Personal Vignette
Humor
Surprising Fact
Unusual Idea
Question
Quote
Dialogue
Smack in the Middle of the Action
(skip that boring intro)
Now Get to work!
Natalie Bright
Introducing…
By Rory C. Keel
At one end of the street three bodies lay in the dirt, at the other end smoke drifted from the barrel of a pistol that a man in a trench coat held in his hand.
Who were these three dead men? Why did they challenge the man in the trench coat? What was this gunfight about?
The first few sentences of a piece of work should draw the reader into the story and cause them to read further. A good introduction may tell the reader what kind of story it will be and help them decide if it’s their kind of story.
Listed below are five basic opening techniques
Try using each of these in your writing and see which one creates the greatest interest in your opening paragraph.
Introducing…
By Rory C. Keel
At one end of the street three bodies lay in the dirt, at the other end smoke drifted from the barrel of a pistol that a man in a trench coat held in his hand.
Who were these three dead men? Why did they challenge the man in the trench coat? What was this gunfight about?
The first few sentences of a piece of work should draw the reader into the story and cause them to read further. A good introduction may tell the reader what kind of story it will be and help them decide if it’s their kind of story.
Listed below are five basic opening techniques
Try using each of these in your writing and see which one creates the greatest interest in your opening paragraph.
Introducing…
By Rory C. Keel
At one end of the street three bodies lay in the dirt, at the other end smoke drifted from the barrel of a pistol that a man in a trench coat held in his hand.
Who were these three dead men? Why did they challenge the man in the trench coat? What was this gunfight about?
The first few sentences of a piece of work should draw the reader into the story and cause them to read further. A good introduction may tell the reader what kind of story it will be and help them decide if it’s their kind of story.
Listed below are five basic opening techniques
Try using each of these in your writing and see which one creates the greatest interest in your opening paragraph.
Wordsmith Six 