2-03-2013

                                                        Writing Leads

            The lead of a story should always help captivate the audience, and increase the interest of the audience. By using an inverted lead it gives you a blue print, to be able to have a good intro. Using the inverted triangle, in my opinion, I feel that it helps eliminate overkill in an intro to a story. That being because instead of trying to have such a long intro and using very big words, you are very concise and short, thus giving the reader a very easy time understanding what you had just read.

            Another positive about the inverted pyramid is that it helps to organize the story at first. By putting down all of the main points of the story, it gives you an easier time to not miss a single point, and at the same time being able to fluently put your thoughts in your writing.

            In writing leads for an article you’re usually able to write a really good lead, for the set of facts given to you. But the first lead you write it goes down hill. I thought the activity was very interesting and it was cool to write many different leads for the same set of facts. Because it showed that in a lead to a story, facts can be interchangeable, no order is the write order, it depends. Now reading newspaper articles’, I can tell that they use the inverted pyramid style.

            I actually thought it was funny after class on Tuesday; I would start noticing how most articles try to captivate the audience with the same type of leads. Looking at this exercise opened my eyes toward something I had no idea about.

-Will Nystrom