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How To Start A Story



1) “Once upon a time”…Or with a twist: “Once upon a particularly terrifying
time…”

2) “One day…” Or perhaps “One gloomy day…” “One sunny day…”


3) With direct speech- e.g. “Hurry up,” yelled Mum, “the taxi will be here any
minute…”

4) Starting with a question. E.g. “Have you ever wondered why ..........?”


5) How about a sound effect? E.g. “Eeeeek,” went the brakes as the car
skidded sideways.

6) Go straight into the action. e.g. “ A vicious right hook caught me just above
the eye.”

7) Characters can introduce themselves e.g. “ Hello, my name is Sid. I’ve go a
brain like a computer and a photographic memory.”


8) Start with a statement e.g. “ Michael was miserable.”


9) A description of a place, a character or a smell can be a good place to
start.
“ The acrid smell of smoke drifted towards me.”


10) Time can Start a story e.g. “It was midnight….” Or “The clocks struck
thirteen.”


11) Weather? “The rain came down like a hail of bullets on the roof of our
car.”


12) Flashback e.g. “As I wondered the lonely cliff path my mind went back
twenty years to that terrible stormy night when my life changed forever.”

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How To Start A Story