[lilazyazn]

I've been working on this story that i wanted to write for a long time now. one confusing part that i have always had is how to start a story.
i can't exactly decide how to start it since it can go many way in the story that allows many different ways to start this story without contradicting it.
this is a sci-fi/magical/why not everything should be included in this, story

i have never been very good at creating a beginning to a story.
one possible opening that i use is well school, graduating, and going about the story. this op is not very good and i have thought about changing it i just wasn't sure about this op, since the school becomes very obsolete and not being use in the rest of the story.

should i have a more guild like story which would be closer to the story, since on part of the story itself revolves around a guild traveling around.

or should i put it to the girl wants a prince drag her along for a journey, which i already used, but as this op goes it starts with a heroine.

or anything else, with any suggestion would help get a better idea at what i would want to start it was.

for you knowledge at least, it starts with a heroine, coming of age, trying to understand why she is different from everyone around her, she cannot use magic in this world filled with magic.

[Baka Baka]

Anyone wouldn't be able to help you if you didn't state your story's body. xD

Try to think about it. How your story's main plot affects how you should start.

Let's say you want to do a school themed story. Starting with childhood memories would be a very good way. No one would be able to help you and I don't think you will accept some of the help. I know because I write stories too. :3

[The_forgotten_fragment]

a friend of mine usually starts writting a stroy from half way then goes bak to write an intro the suit wat he is writing. I Start my storys with the with a hint of how its going to end

[lilazyazn]

well yes i've have written it way beyond half pass point but i still can't think of a good idea in how to start the story. Since in a very brief way it is, girl goes on a journey, in that journey they fight to survive the trials that belated them. in the journey they would have to find out about the past of some of there characters and the destiny that awaits them.

and to baka baka, the part about using the childhood is a good idea.

and I'm not so shallow as to reject other ppls ideas. Since i'm always curious about what other ppl think. also the story begins halfway through, i know it sounds kinda weird that the story begins halfway through, but it that there is a larger background story that takes place and the event taken into how the story begins is still unwritten, haven't gotten that far cuz i really didn't like how i began the story. so i'm still very much open to what ppl would throw out as an opening to a story. who knows even an idea that u might not think would work might be solid gold.

though for what the body of the story is kinda like.
girl mets her childhood friend (he is also older than her), goes on the adventure with him and his friends, (which also includes her older sister but does not know it), encounter antagonist, and goes on adventure to destroy their planet. well maybe omit that last part.

[Alyss]

Use three act structure. In act 1 of three act structure, you do the following in the opening: main character (who the story is about), dramatic situation (the set up of your world. This both means how the world runs, and how your characters fit into it), dramatic premise (what the thrust of the story is), and the inciting incident (the event that gets your main character's journey started. Bear in mind that 'journey' here doesn't have to be literally used).

Three act is generally a script thing, but I'm pretty sure you can use it for books too...

[lilazyazn]

three act structure. mhm...
thanks a lot. i think this one helps a lot. i think that was what i was missing all this time. */facepalm then laughs hysterically*

[Alyss]

Glad to be of help. Make sure you write a lot as well, like something every day. You more familiar you are with your writing and your process, the easier this kind of stuff will be.