HOW TO START WRITING THAT STORY

One of my readers asked me an awesome question.  How do you start writing a story?

I love that he asked me that!  I thought I would post my response to him here, so others could see it too.  Also, I'm hopeful that some of my author friends would be kind enough to add their ideas here as well.  There are so many different approaches, I'd be interested to see some more perspectives than just my own (and hopefully your thoughts will somehow augment my paltry observations).


Here is the response I...