1. Fiction Writing The Art of Storytelling
“It was a dark and stormy night.” Madeline L’Engle
A Wrinkle in Time

2. Classic openings…
“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream, and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.” Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
“It doesn’t start here. You’d think it would: two terrified girls in the middle of nowhere, cowering together eyes bulging at the gun in his hand. But it doesn’t start here. It starts the first time I almost die.” Tess Sharpe – Far From You
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” George Orwell – 1984
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all that David Copperfield kind of garbage, but I don’t feel like going into it if you really want to know the truth.” J.D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye
“I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.” Ransom Riggs – Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
“It was the day my grandmother exploded.” Iain Banks – The Crow Road

3. Fiction PP.ppt
Writing Fiction Leads.docx

4. Tell me a story… Select an image that captures your imagination.
Choose an opening or lead that will grab the reader’s attention.
Continue the adventure with a fictional story with vivid characters, detail, description, tone, mood, conflict, rising action, climax, and resolution