Having the Worst Trouble With Beginning a Story?

When writing a story, you must first know the idea. What exactly do you want your story to be about? Who will be the main character in your story, and do they have any flaws, characteristics that apply and give reason to the idea of your story.

Example: If you want your story to be about a girl who meets a boy, and the only problem between the two is her addiction to drugs. Your main focus on the story will be the two characters falling in love, the girl's struggle with her addiction, and the relationship that is formed throughout the whol process of trying to stop. Keep the turns ans twists throughout the story, but do not change the trouble in every single chapter. Once you've thought of an idea, plot, climax, etc., it is then when you will start.

It's a lot more reasonable to start with a chapter known as either the preface, where you as the author speak of how you came up with the idea for the story, and so on. But what most writers on here do, is begin with what we call a prologue. The prologue opens up a story, in any way the author writes it out to be.

You could just start the story with the character in their present day, you could have it start with something from the past that triggers what happens later on in the story, or you can write about the future - about something that will happen later in the story, which will get your readers a lot more intrigued.

Now once you have thought about which time you'd like to write in, think of a turning point that you want to happen in the story. Afterall, every story usually has something close to it. That usually brings in drama and suspense - and readers love that. When thinking of something to write, you're able to use any point of view. When gets readers going crazy is either first person, or third - and usually those are all that are used.

Make sure that your beginning has some sort of emotional pull towards it. The emotion that the character feels, will get to the readers heart, and they will feel more compelled to read! Remember that emotion in a story is most likely the key to the idea.

Now for the example posted earlier in the article, this gives you a good practice. What you know is the main characters, the main idea, or problem in the story, and the emotion that sets in - hate, addiction, love. For the prologue, many ideas could be the character's starting point with the use of what she does. As I said before, it could be anything. And remember, the begninning does not have to be long!

This may seem not quite helpful, but for the writers who do understand, don't give up, everyone at least once in their life, have trouble with beginning something, whether it be a story, article, journal, etc.

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