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Creating the Lead

Creating the Lead. How to Begin. Nonfiction Leads- How to begin. Offer fascinating or surprising information Look at a familiar topic from a new angle Provide expert insights Create suspense Ask a question. Fiction Leads- How to begin. Open with dialogue Begin in the middle of the action

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Creating the Lead

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  1. Creating the Lead How to Begin

  2. Nonfiction Leads- How to begin • Offer fascinating or surprising information • Look at a familiar topic from a new angle • Provide expert insights • Create suspense • Ask a question

  3. Fiction Leads- How to begin • Open with dialogue • Begin in the middle of the action • Describe character, setting, or problem • Create suspense

  4. Which type of lead? • “The wings of a butterfly seem so delicate that it is hard to imagine this fragile insect traveling much farther than from flower to flower. But one butterfly- the monarch butterfly- is stronger than it looks. For it will travel on its small wings a thousand miles or more.” • Surprising Fact

  5. Which type of lead? • “Migrating animals sometimes face many dangers as they travel, and this is especially true for the majestic antlered caribou. These animals spend their summers on the tundra near the cold Arctic circle. The weather is mild in the summer, the food good and plentiful on the green pastures. However, the caribou cannot stay here long, for they will not survive the Arctic winter. But even migration will not save all of them.” • Create suspense

  6. Which type of lead? • “Night winds, moaning around corners and whistling through cracks, dashed snow against the windows of the Mountain View Inn.” • Description • Setting

  7. Which type of lead? • “Where is Papa going with that ax?’ said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.” • Dialogue

  8. Which type of lead? • “Everybody knows the story of the Three Little Pigs. Or at least they think they do. But I’ll let you in a little secret. Nobody knows the real story, because nobody has ever heard my side of the story.” • Create suspense/tension

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