A story into the February Global Short Story Competition today got me musing. There are all sorts of ways to start stories, one of which is scene-setting.
The action doesn’t really begin in the opening paragraph, instead we join the characters in a pause before the action, which allows us to get to know the character (s) and the setting.
If the setting is a huge part of your story, or if a big part of your goal is to establish a mood, it‘s an ideal opening.
Sometimes you want your story to get going a bit faster but using the scene-setter can be really effective as long as the quality of the writer is such that it draws in the reader. And this one did it beautifully.
Plenty of time to enter at www.inscribemedia.co.uk
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