1. How do you creatively introduce a story or journal entry? Ideas?
Journal Entries
How do you creatively introduce a story or journal entry? Ideas?

2. Creative Titles Should fit the entry and personalize it
“Resolution & Redemption”
“The Dr. Pepper Man”
“Super Soaker Spanish”
“Blind Date”

3. Creative Introductions
Question: Factual? Emotionally loaded? Off the wall?
Did you know female elephants are pregnant for almost two years?
“Interesting Quote”
Mark Twain wrote, “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Funny or Surprising Story
You never forget how to ride a bike, right? Wrong. Within a month after I bought my bike, I flew over the handlebars not once but twice, and it took a year for my knees to stop hurting.

4. Creative Introductions
Dangle a carrot.
So you want to be a writer. Not just any writer, but a really good writer. A famous writer. A fiction writer. A novelist. A New York Times Best Seller kind of writer.
Spark Your Reader’s Imagination
Can you imagine a time when people didn’t have a cell phone or the Internet? Maybe you’re too young, but people who were born before 1990 might remember. Now think hard. No chat, no texting, no Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, forums or . No instant research tools. Nothing at all except you and your PC (if you had one for word processing) or a typewriter.

5. Make a skeleton outline/list.
Topic: 9/11 memory
Sept. 11, 2001
Ordinary day
Working in admissions office
Wayne Bley, boss
8:55, conference room, news report
Mr. Bley yelled for me.
Planes had crashed into towers.
Mr. Bley’s reaction
Called to Washington
World changed—My job changed.