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You have the topic for your post ready. All the subtopics you will use in the post are already on the Draft. The keywords you will use in your post have already been charted out. Now you want to begin writing your article. How do you get the opening sentence?
An opening seems to be the introduction of you, the writer and what you want to write. It May be catchy and attract readers to your article. Or it may be boring and Draw readers away from your post. Is your start sentence a magnet that attracts or a stench that repels?
How are the choice of words? How do they marry together? The words must be right. Here is one opening sentence that I read some years back in a James Hardley Chase book.
He found himself staring into the muzzle of a .45 automatic riffe.
Here you are gripped to know very many things. You want to know who the man staring into the gun is and what he had done wrong. You want to know the gunman and what he is up to. You want to know what will happen next. You will be forced to read on.
It is a big mistake to have a great opening and disappoint the reader on the way. You must keep the flag flowing to avoid premature exit of interest in your article.
Good opening sentences are like courting words, they should be sweet.
I have always looked for good opening sentences. Am sorry that I have not got them. Have you?
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The problems of a writer are how to begin and how to end.The best thing to do is write what pops up from the mind, and then develop the topic . Let us not forget the 3 parts of a composition intro, body and conclusion. As long as the beginning is ready, the next thing to do is just support the main topics.In our case as bloggers, we can immediately strike a beginning sentence according to the blog we want to write.
This is the area where every writer makes a sluggish movement. This is an important area to attract the readers to read your article. As you said rightly, the concluding part is a difficult exit. It should be decorated nicely to make others feel free smelling the flowers in the Garden. The Garden should be nicely arranged with good pictures, some thrilling quotes et., Everything should be arranged properly. Others, there is no purpose of keeping a beautiful garden without good entry and exit.
Thinking of a great opening sentence is such an important aspect of being a writer.
With so much information being written and shared online and offline, we cannot afford to be boring or vague.
This is the usual and the common problem of every writer. In your case, you write the problem of the opening sentence which seems unattractive. Where? How do you qualify your title to attract readers? Then as you have said, reader's attention would be pegged to read more if the introductory sentence in your post is interesting or catchy.
Yours is a declarative statement of what your topic is about. Why not make it interesting? And how do you do it? You see. It is not easy but if you are used to writing you could easily make it and have everything flowing smoothly.
Is this for short story, 'how to open sentence in writing short story'. Nice tip here. Actually, the first paragraph is one of the hardest work for many writers. They don't know how to begin the story. I have read a book on how to start a short story. But this does not matter when you want to write. You don't think how to start.
My tip is here: think of a scene, any scene in your house, school, in the garden, eating, quarrel, and try to narrate that scene, this is how I start my story.
Rather than talking about the opening sentence I would rather worry about giving an appropriate title which normally attracts readers and viewers.