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I need help starting off my story. Please helpp?

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Hannah Richard Profile
Hannah Richard , Please help, answered

Pleaseee help me. I am a struggling writer and I am having a lot of trouble starting off my story. I know I sound lazy ASF but I'm not being lazy.

Its just been really difficult for me to write and I'm not sure if this is some writer's block thing or if it's just because I just started writing again and it's been a while since I've wrote a story. I'm not asking for much, I just need a kick start to get me writing thanks.

The story is about orphan named Denver. Denver is a very sweet and kind 16 years old . When he was young his mom gave him up so that he could have a better life. All these years he thought she hated him but little did he know she cared for him more then he believed. He has two orphanage sisters that look up to him every now and then, all the kids in the orphanage look up to him because he's the oldest but he is tired of having to look over little kids and have them look up to him every second of the day. He just wants to get out and find a friend. So eventually he does. He meets a girl at a playground and they like become good friends.

He tells her that he's an orphan ,. He tells her about his life and his past life too and she eventually becomes supportive over him. Her name is willow and  Little did he know that willow was struggling with anxiety and bullying at school, she's 15 years old and people constantly torture her at school. Denver does whatever he can to be supportive of her too. Just like she's supportive of him. Later on in the story they become closer and closer. He gives her advice about life and basically throughout the story he's like her mentor.

Denver gets hit by a drunk driver and he later ends up in the hospital. Willow cries and prays to God she doesn't looses him. But sadly he dies and she holds on to the memories she has left of him. She startss to take the advice that he's given her and stays strong , no matter what. OK so yeah. Please help thanks.

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Danae Hitch answered

I've found this website to be immensely helpful to me as I have struggled like you are struggling now. They cover so many topics, it would be impossible to list them all.

www.writershelpingwriters.net

This is an excerpt from their site: "It’s typically best to begin the story in medias res. I can’t remember who first coined this term in regards to writing, but it’s a gem. When you’re starting a story, you want to begin in medias res—“in the middle.” What this means is that you want to start your story once it’s already underway.

As authors, we’re always worried that our readers aren’t going to understand what we’re trying to show. This is especially true in the beginning, where there’s so much backstory we think is critical to a reader’s understanding. So we back up to a point where that backstory can be revealed. While we think we’re being helpful, this is a real drag for readers, who are forced to slog their way through pages of backstory info dumps that drag the pace and cause their interest to flag. Sometimes we take readers so far into the past that the characters aren’t even the ones in the current story, or they’re significantly different due to age or circumstances. (Hello, prologue—a topic for another blog post, but if you’re looking for tips on how and why prologues can work, check this out.)

Readers pick up a book because they want to get lost in it right away. They want the characters on page one to be the ones they’re going to get invested in and become attached to. This is best achieved if they start reading in the middle of the character’s current story."

Hope this helps.  Good luck.

Natty Lawrence Profile
Natty Lawrence answered

The introduction to your story should try to capture your reader‟s
interest. To bring immediate focus to your subject, you may want to use a quotation, a
provocative question, a brief anecdote, a startling statement, or a combination of these.
You may also want to include background information relevant to your thesis and
necessary for the reader to understand the position you are taking. In case you would need some help in proofreading I would recommend you to contact Supreme essay service. Those guys are real professionals in what they do. So you can definitely give them a try. Good luck!

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David Johnson answered

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