STORY NARRATION HOW TO

‘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 before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.’ J.D. From the first line, the reader gets to know a characterful narrator.įor example, Salinger’s Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye (1951) has a strong voice and clear, disaffected teen persona: These novels typically use first person narration.

STORY NARRATION HOW TO

This is how to start a story about a character coming of age or grappling with internal conflict.

Watch the summary video on ways to begin stories now, then read discussion of the story beginnings below: Introduce readers to a memorable narrator-protagonist Introduce readers to a memorable narrator-protagonist.

These five types of story beginnings work: Ways to start a story that engage your reader Or you could begin in the thick of action, as Ray Bradbury’s does in his classic novel, Fahrenheit 451. You could begin a novel with a narrator/character introducing himself, like Salinger’s Holden Caufield or Dickens’ David Copperfield. Great authors show us there are many ways to start a story.

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