Great Beginnings: Inviting the Reader to Enter

By Ronnie Blair

Writing an essay about great beginnings is intimidating because readers expect you to start the essay with a great beginning. Failing that you are tempted to retreat and go in search of another, safer, simpler topic. Quantum physics, perhaps.

But failure happens often in writing and other endeavors, so the other alternative is to plunge ahead regardless, which is what I shall do now.

Writers are well versed in the concept of writing a lead (or lede, as some journalist...