首先开头不见得要用故事,只是故事开头比较容易读进去;另外讲个小故事也让读者从某个角度了解你一些。
所以,如果觉得自己有故事,不妨用故事来开个头。
这里要说的不是故事的内容,毕竟这个肯定是自己的比较好。这里要说的是故事开头的叙事的方式。
以下几个来自于近期读报的例子,
故事一般大致就是时间、地点、人物、事件。所以下面可以特别注意下这几个元素是怎么出来的
第一个是叙事自己的故事
# 讲自己小时候往返于两地的故事
The flightsItook throughout my childhoodleft O’Hareat noon and lasted 13 hours. When I landed, it was afternoon inTokyothe next day. Datelines and time zones seemed to converge in my mind as an entire day somehow evaporated. Even more mind-bending was what happened on the return. Leaving Tokyo, I arrived inChicagothe same day, only two hours earlier, like a record skipping backward. By now I know these shifts innately, never needing to do the time-zone math in my head,because I have made the round tripat least 40 timesin my 29-year existence.I was born in 1993in Nagoya, Japan, to an American father and Japanese mother. We’d fly to the United States once or twice a year, for weeks at a time, to see my American grandparents.When my parents, my sister and Imoved to the U.S. in 2001, the travel continued, only in reverse. We spent multiple months each summer in Nagoya, a migration we continue to this day. For as long as I’ve been alive, I’ve flown between these two homes, and the part of the journey that I find most familiar is something most people dread and deride: the debilitating, dizzying jet lag.
下面几个是叙事别人的故事
# 一个小故事讲随机善意带来的温暖
In late August,Erin Alexander,57, sat in theparking lot of a Target storein Fairfield, Calif., and wept. Her sister-in-law had recently died, and Ms. Alexander was having a hard day.A baristaworking at the Starbucks inside the Target was too. The espresso machine had broken down and she was clearly stressed. Ms.Alexander— who’d stopped crying and gone inside for some caffeine — smiled, ordered an iced green tea, andtold her to hang in there. After picking up her order, she noticed a message on the cup: “Erin,” the barista had scrawled next to a heart,“your soul is golden.”“I’m not sure I even necessarily know what ‘your soul is golden’ means,” said Ms. Alexander, who laughed and cried while recalling the incident.
But the warmth of that small and unexpected gesture, from a stranger who had no inkling of what she was going through, moved her deeply.
# 一个小故事讲刚上任的英首相还是太不贴近普通人生活了
In March,Rishi Sunakwas photographedfilling up a carat a supermarket gas station. The purpose, of course, was self-promotion: Mr. Sunak was keen to advertise his role, as finance minister, in cutting the price of fuel. But the puff misfired.
The car, a modestred Kia Rio, wasn’t his(it belonged to a supermarket employee). Inside the garage, Mr. Sunak further embarrassed himself byshowing he had no ideahow to make a contactless payment. As a dramatization of Mr. Sunak’s detachment from ordinary life, it couldn’t be bettered.