Start Your Story With Good Paragraph.



by Garry Beau


When it comes to writing an intro, what comes to mind is writing a small introductory passage. However, this is not all that's to it. What you need to do to engage reader interest is to bring out your story in the right way. In order to do this, you need to encapsulate the spirit of the entire story and bring it out through an example. When you do this you have to be careful because capturing the story essence alone is not enough, you need to grasp the main point of the story, else the purpose of the story is lost.

If you're going to start writing, make sure it's short intro. When readers see a headline they expect the writing below it to contain content which relates to that headline. There's only so much time a reader will spend with an intro about sports when the headline suggested the article was about vacations.

Okay, so you have completed the intro and this intro captures the essence of the story in every sense. However, before you consider this as your final copy, you have to check if the intro is really short enough, so that the reader won't lose patience till the content comes to the point you are bringing across?

In this piece above, you can see that the intro is pretty short. This is the kind of intro that works with the audience because the reader is aware of what they are reading and absorbing it fully. The reader knows what the article is about in a broad sense and therefore they know what to expect inside the story.

In short, if you give an introduction that is really long, but which has not connection to the headline, you could be putting down your story like nothing else and this really spoils a good story.

Another point is when you use anecdotes. You should let your reader know before-hand how your anecdote relates to your topic before you tell it to them, else the reader will leave out your topic, even before you begin to elaborate your point.

Furthermore, what is really necessary is to put the spirit of the story in as few words as possible. The aim behind the introduction is to bring across the boarder meaning of the topic.

If you want to do this right, you have to think about your intro in a broader sense and include those details which bring this out and leave out those that don't. So, if you have extra details such as dates, names, descriptions and diversions but which are not really necessary for the essence of the anecdote, do not mention them as they will only distract the reader.

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If you want to grab the reader's attention you must pay attention with the introductory passage. This is the lead in for the rest of your story. Think about your intro as a whole and consider which details help do this and which do not




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