Story beggining?

Question

I really don't know how to start a story idea that I have going...

Maby someone coudl help out?

Set in high school, deals with a kid who is a living paradox.
He dressess punk, acts punk, and listens to nothing but punk music. But it isn't untill he meets a girl who is the same and his oppisite at the same time that he discovers he is missing the true 'spirit' of rebellion.

That's a really bad summery, but it's the best I could do.
Anyone have an idea how to start and get the two chracters farmiliar with each other?

I have the genral plot, it's the beginning I need.

And please no, 'start from the end' ideas. I want to start from the BEGINNING.

Answer 1

(kid) get detintion as always from a teacher that does not like him when the (kid) is late to class. he first sees the girl when she brings a note in to the detintion teacher. he thinks shes a goody to-shoe who is stuck up. but then she ends up back talking the same teacher an gets sent to detintion too. he makes a smart alec coomment an she yells at him. but then they relize they liek eachother

Answer 2

The guy who wrote "start in the middle" is on the right track. You want to start with an action and maybe a change. Harry Potter started out one ordinary day, but on the first page you knew it was going to be the beginning of something totally different. Could she be a new student? Could he be breaking up with his old girlfriend? Or she sees him for the first time when he gets into a fight with her brother?
Try to think of an action that prepetuated change and tell the reader something about his character. As he is fighting with the old girlfriend. He just found out that she was cheating on him. She yells at him, humiliating him in front of the entire lunch room. He responds by staring coldly into her face but does not say a word. Everyone around him can see the anger about to explode inside him, but he keeps it all inside and simply mutters "*****" under his breath as he walks to the smoking yard to have a cigarette. How does the main character girl (not the girlfriend) feel and/or react? That would tell you something about her. Is she humiliated for him, or does she admire his coolness and restaint?

I guess I'd start slightly at the meeting or slightly before.

Interesting story idea, you have going
Good luck

Answer 3

I'm not gonna sit here and write a beginning for you. But I will tell you this, the beginning is the hardest part.. (so I've heard) and the part that needs the most passion. You have to make people sitting in a Barnes and Noble pick up your book, read the first three sentences and fall in love. Now, your idea is great, all ideas are, and has loads of potential. But that's not enough to create the passion I'm talking about. YOU have to fall in love with this book..... and to fall in love with it, you have to begin it with your ideas. I'm not saying its a bad idea to talk to people about it. People can be the greatest idea congerers... but please, don't do it until after you've written about it. When you tell someone about a story it takes some of the magic out of it. And even worse when you use someone else's ideas. They aren't yours so, its as if they've been filtered by other peoples minds before they reach yours. Be extremely careful with the beginning of your story.

Answer 4

Start right in the middle of it. Have something bad happen to your character right away. Maybe... he has some confrontation with the girl? Maybe she makes him look bad in front of his friends? Instead of telling what he's like, show what he's like in an action scene.

Answer 5

Boy /girl story ,parental disaproval, ethnic mix , class barriers,
love conquers all, fill in the gaps, regards LF