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The blank page is intimidating for many people.
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Questions can lead to frustration…
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Have you ever had these thoughts?
• Where do I begin?• How do I start?• What should I say first?• How do I make my introduction
interesting?• I’m never going to finish this story if I can’t
even write the first line!!!!!
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“Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until blood forms on your forehead.”
Gene Fowler (Biographer)
When asked, “How do you write?” I invariably answer, “One word at a time.”
Stephen King
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Here are some ways to help you get started…
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What might I include in a description of the setting?
• Visuals…color, textures, landscape, people present, objects at that location.
• Time period… last year, when I was little, after my grandmother’s 90th birthday party.
• Sounds…traffic, nature, voices, action, construction.
• Weather…wind, rain, swaying of trees, snowflakes falling softly.
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What do you see?
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What details does this author include?
• “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
–Neuromancer, William Gibson
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• “In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains.”
–A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
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• “The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.”
–Babbit Sinclair Lewis
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Begin by sharing a memory…
• “It wasn’t much, really, the whole Jessica Feeney thing. If you look at it, nothing much happened.”
– Firegirl Tony Abbott
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• “When I was little, my uncle Pete had a necktie with a porcupine on it.” - Stargirl Jerry
Spinelli • “Many years later, as he faced the firing
squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember a distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
-One Hundred Years of Solitude Gregory Rabassa
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“If you are reading this, it must be a thousand years from now.”
-The Last Book in the Universe, Rodman Philbrick
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” -1984, George Orwell
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“It was a pleasure to burn.” -Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
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“A screaming comes across the sky.”
-Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
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“It was the wrong number that started it, the telephone rang three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.”
-City of Glass, Paul Auster
“ The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
-The Gunslinger, Stephen King
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Have your characters begin your story with their own words.
“I’ve never seen a worse driver than
you!”
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“You better not never tell nobody but God.”
-The Color Purple, Alice Walker
“If I am out of my mind, it’s all right with me,” thought Moses Herzog.
-Herzog, Saul Bellow
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Tell your reader what is true about life- in general- and how it relates to your subject.
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“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.”
-Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston
“Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimension of space.”
-Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood
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“All children, except one, grow up.”- Peter Pan, J.M Barrie
“When a journey begins badly, it rarely ends well.”
-The Floating Island, Jules Vern
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Restate the prompt…
“An important memory for me was when…”
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Give away the most important part at the beginning…
“One important memory was when my aunt died.”
Oh no you diiin’t!
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Talk to the reader…
“This story is about the time I went to…”
“I’m going to write about…”
That’s just WRONG!
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Don’t go too far back in time. Start from the moment the event began.
BAD IDEA!
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Start with the exact date…
“It was January 3, 2004…”
What were you thinking?!!
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Start with an obvious onomatopoeia…..
Ring! Ring!
Ding dong!
Vrooom!
Not the ‘Ring! Ring!’ Essay again!
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Now that you know how to start your story….let’s get back to work and make that introduction amazing!