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    This document provides 9 different ways to begin a story, each illustrated by a brief excerpt from a published work: 1) With a generalization, 2) By describing a person, 3) With a narrative summary, 4) By including dialogue, 5) Featuring several characters without dialogue, 6) By setting the scene and introducing one character, 7) From the perspective of a reminscent narrator, 8) Through a child narrator, 9) From a particular point of view.

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    This document provides 9 different ways to begin a story, each illustrated by a brief excerpt from a published work: 1) With a generalization, 2) By describing a person, 3) With a narrative summary, 4) By including dialogue, 5) Featuring several characters without dialogue, 6) By setting the scene and introducing one character, 7) From the perspective of a reminscent narrator, 8) Through a child narrator, 9) From a particular point of view.

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    Nine Ways To BeginYour Story

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    This document provides 9 different ways to begin a story, each illustrated by a brief excerpt from a published work: 1) With a generalization, 2) By describing a person, 3) With a narrative summary, 4) By including dialogue, 5) Featuring several characters without dialogue, 6) By setting the scene and introducing one character, 7) From the perspective of a reminscent narrator, 8) Through a child narrator, 9) From a particular point of view.

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    Nine Ways to Begin Your Story

    Accompanies Video Introduction


    Generalization

    My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in


    America.

    Amy Tan "Two Kinds"


    Describe a Person

    He was lifting his knees high and putting his hand up, when I
    first saw him, as if cross the road through that stringing rain..."
    V.S. Pritchett "The Sailor"
    Narrative Summary

    An unfortunate circumstance in my life has just recalled to mind


    a certain Dr. Crombie and the conversations I used to hold with
    him when I was young.  He was the school doctor until the
    eccentricity of his ideas became generally known.

    Graham Greene "Doctor Crombie"


    With Dialogue

    Don't think about a cow," Matt Brinkley said.

    Ann Beattie "In the White Night"


    Several Characters, No Dialogue

    During the lunch hour, the male clerks usually went out, leaving
    myself and the three girls behind.

    Frank O'Connor "Music When Soft Voices Die"


    Setting and One Character

    After dinner, with its eight courses and endless conversation,


    Olga Mikhailovna, whose husband's birthday was being
    celebrated, went out into the garden.

    Anton Chekhov "The Birthday Party"


    Reminiscent Narrator

    I was already formally engaged, as we used to say, to the girl I


    was going to marry.

    Peter Taylor "The Old Forest"


    Child Narrator

    When I was in third grade I knew a boy who had to have


    fourteen shots in the stomach as the result of a squirrel bite.
    Ellen Gilchrist "Victory Over Japan"
    Point of View

    The August two-a-day practice sessions were sixty-seven days


    away, Coach calculated.
    Mary Robison "Coach"

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