Try basing some story introductions off dreams.
Teleplays, screenplays, short stories, introductions, forewords, nothing.
In the story's introduction, she writes, "Hygge is … used as a way to suppress feelings in a family or relationship.
An outline of the story and introduction to the main characters: Crowley and Aziraphale.
Or more relevant to the story: the introduction of gunpowder and cannons.
I shared some of my story, the introduction to my book and a handful of the life lessons.
"I always like to have another story, another introduction, another work, and I'll just go and work on that, while somewhere in the back of my mind I'm churning over why I'm stuck and what went wrong and figuring out how to go forward," he said.
This package of stories, this introduction and the three related profiles linked below, is part of an experimental series in which a location is chosen at random -- actually using Google Maps and a random-coordinate generator -- to explore what it's like to do science there.
But in the new Byker, Ms. Konttinen had to invest a year joining community groups and listening and collecting stories, before introductions turned into invitations into homes.
