Where to begin a story - perhaps not at the beginning

[farad]

I was reading this blog post today and it made me stop and go - huh, yeah, I need to rethink some of my story-telling methods:

"Why Stories Should Never Begin at the Beginning" 

I especially like this:

"Look to the way we tell stories in person for critical tale-telling lessons we can use on the page. On the page we seem to have no audience: it’s us looking down the one-way street of a ghost town. But when you tell a story to a live human being, you can behold their body language, can see their eyes shifting and maybe looking for an exit, you can hear the questions they ask to prove their engagement and confirm their curiosity — you have a whole series of potential reflections that tell you whether or not your story (and more important, its telling) is effective. Powerful feedback, right there.

So –

Act like someone is there when you’re writing."

An interesting idea . . .