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Free 11+ creative writing worksheet
Story openings: try four kinds
About 15 minutes
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Write four openings for the same story, one of each kind. Each opening should be one to three sentences. Then choose the one that hooks the reader best.
My story idea or title
1. Start with dialogue
e.g. 'Don't touch that!' Aunt Rosa shouted, but it was too late.
2. Start with action
e.g. Jake sprinted across the ice as the first crack split the silence.
3. Start with description
e.g. Fog crept up from the river, swallowing the lamp posts one by one.
4. Start with a question or mystery
e.g. Nobody had opened the green door in fifty years. So why was it ajar?
Which opening hooks the reader best?
Tick one, then explain why.
- Dialogue
- Action
- Description
- Question or mystery