How will you write yours?

When you read narrative texts, you will meet many different methods of starting a story. Some of the most common are:

 

. Giving a description of the setting or the situation

. Going straight into some dialogue between two or more of the characters

. Offering a description of one or more of the characters

. Going straight into part of the action or narrative

 

Read the opening lines of the description below:

 

Wedding days always started at the haunting, magical hour of early dawn when there was only a pale crack of light on the horizon. For those who were awake, it took the earth hours to adjust to daylight. The cool and damp of the night slowly arose in shimmering waves like water and even the forms of the people bestirred themselves at this unearthly hour were distorted in the haze; they appeared to be dancers in slow motion, with fluid, watery forms.   

 

Your Task

Write a description using any one of the methods above describing a memorable event in your life.