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Today I will be presenting the leads I wrote after learning and practicing them in class. My teacher majored in journaling and she told us about this exercise she would do in class to help her get better at writing leads. There would be a 5 minute timer and you would have to write a lead, no matter the type, on the specific story given. Everyone would present their leads and the three people who had the best leads would pass on to the next round. My teacher was in college when she did this so it was a lot more competitive but thats what she based our activity on. In class, she out up a storyline and gave us 5 minutes to write a lead on it. It could be a descriptive lead, a narrative lead, or even a startling lead. We could choose any, it just had to be done in under 5 minutes. The next three blogs will present the three leads I came up with. I can promise they won’t be the best leads you’ve ever read, but that’s why I’m still practicing. To make even better leads for my 4-page magazine.
Title: Twist
Description: sets the reader up for one mood and then twists it, surprises the reader
Example used: Someone called 18 people in the city last night. The caller identified himself as the president of Rutherford Ford, Inc., 2780 Doss Boulevard. He told each of the people that they had just won a new car from his dealership. Interviewed by reporters today, most of the people who received the calls said that at first they just couldn't believe it. And they were right. They couldn't. The person who called was a prankster, and Allen Rutherford, president of the dealership, says he has no idea who placed he calls, and that he's spending all his time today trying to explain the situation to those 18 people. "Someone apparently has a sick idea of humor," Rutherford said. After convincing people they had won a new car, the caller asked them to drop by the dealership this morning to pick it up. All 18 were there when the dealership opened its doors at 9 a.m. "I told them we never offered to give away a car," Rutherford said. "One woman told me she couldn't believe she'd won, and then she told me she couldn't believe it when I told her she hadn't. Two other women began to cry, and a man is threatening to sue me."
Lead: Allen Rutherford called 18 people last night, fulfilling their dreams with one phone call. The only problem was, Allen Rutherford, the president of Rutherford For, was asleep in his house on that alleged night.
That’s all for today!
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