The best opening is to situate the story: time, place, general ambiance. This is called the exposition.
You can read the first paragraphs of several stories in a story magazine, or several books on the shelf, and from them decide whether this time, this place and the general tenor of the story is interesting to you.
Then, when you open your story, you can follow the pattern and engage readers early.
A young woman receives a mysterious old book as a gift from a stranger. As she reads it, she discovers that the stories in the book are coming to life around her, blurring the lines between reality and fiction. She must navigate this magical world to uncover the book's secrets and prevent a dangerous prophecy from coming true.
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exposition
The plot of a story is telling you about the story. This is what makes you want to keep reading.
an exposition
exposition
you tell what you are going to write about in short sentences.
climax
plot
a plot
a plot
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Traditionally the inventors of the short story are Edgar Allan Poe in America and Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol in Europe. Really however the short story has been around since the beginning of writing and these authors merely started a fad.
a scribble pad is a pab that you scetch or make short storys on
It is a diagram of a plot showing beginning, middle, and end of the story's plot.
because he wrote a lot of good short storys
The beginning plot of Hamlet ended in the last scene of Act 5.
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