@josedpoggio: Always begin in the middle ✍🏼 Emotions should spark interest. The best way to hook someone into your story is by starting “in medias res”. That is: in the middle of the narrative. I don’t know you, but I usually want to overexplain first, give a lot of context, basically inform people and then telling something I think is compelling. But the reality is that first you need to make people care, and then they’ll ask for context. How to know if you’re doing it right? The start should feel like you’re catching up with whatever’s happening. An example of this is that I absolutely love is the pilot episode of Breaking Bad: literally starting in the highest point of tension of the story, and then taking us back to the actual “beginning”. Raise the stakes, hook us right in, and make us keep a question in our heads: How does it get to that point? Do you know any other good “in medias res” beginnings? Any recommendation for me? 😎 #storytelling #beginnings #narrativestructure #visual

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