Bridge to Story   Welcome to Bridge to Story  Coaching sharpens
storytelling craft & style. See your story shine. All genres,
memoir. Novice writers spend a lot of time reading how-to books
and attending workshops and classes. A lot of these offer
exercises, story starters and prompts to try out your writing
skills.    • Write ten opening lines   • Keep a list of unusual
names for future characters   • Write a paragraph beginning with
the phrase _____    Seeing is believing. The example linked to
this week’s lesson is written by real novice writers. See where
they began and how they worked the lessons in a before and after
editing example. This Lesson’s Examples.   The exercises linked
to this week's lesson are based on several resources. For each
fiction lesson we present a specific exercise. We also provide
links to help you build a personal library of How-to books by
wonderful authors. This Lesson's Exercise.