Try This - 9.1

 

• Try This 9.1
• By now you have from your journal entries an idea for a short story. Take 15 minutes to list all the events of this story in their chronological order. List everything we will need to know in order to make sene of it.  
• If Seth's fear of water results from the time his cruel half brother held him under when he was five - and we need to know this in order to understand why he wont go out in a boat at twenty - then list the bullying incident in its chronological place. 
• Find the item exactly halfway down your list.  Write the first paragraph of your story, beginning there. 
• Take the last item on your list. Write the first paragraph of the story beginning it there. 
• Pick the right item on your list for the beginning of the story. Try these: Begin with a line of dialogue.  Begin with an action. Begin with an image of danger. Begin with the weather. Begin with the protagonist's thought. Begin with a long shot. Begin with a close up.