故事是比较能让读者进入文字的一种开始方式。
特别是文书这种比较私人情感类的文字，用故事开头是个不错的选择。
下面几个开头示范来自于最近的外刊文章
# 第一人称的故事开头
文章写的是关于compliment 表扬的好处。文章开头部分的结构显示一个关于compliment 的发生在自己身上的故事，然后进一步讨论compliment 这个话题。
A stranger gave me a compliment 10 years ago that I’ll never forget. I was at a diner in Brooklyn with my then 3-year-old and a few of her friends. I was making them laugh by acting silly — inserting two long French fries under my upper lip so I looked like a walrus, for example.
After lunch, a woman came up to me and said she had enjoyed my “show.” She was recently widowed, she said, and it felt good to laugh.
Offering a compliment has been shown to benefit both the giver and receiver, but we often hold back because we’re worried about how we’ll come off, said Erica Boothby, a social psychologist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, who has studied the positive effects of compliments.
# 第三人称的故事开头
文章讲的是亿万富翁，因为Upenn 的表态不够坚定，决定不再捐款母校。文章开头部分讲了一个富翁读书时候的故事，交代了富翁最初捐款的动机。
When Marc Rowan’s father died while he was a student at the University of Pennsylvania and the family could no longer afford tuition, the school told him he could finish paying whenever he was able.
Rowan sent the university the money a few months after graduation, using his first bonus from his job as a junior investment banker at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Grateful for its generosity, he kept giving to Penn as he climbed to the pinnacle of Wall Street power. He donated $50 million to its Wharton school in 2018, the largest gift the business school had ever received at the time.
