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In this blog I'm going to talk about another type of lead that could help me improve my writing.
Title of lead:
Twist
Definition:
A Twist sets a reader for one mood and then this is changed. It's meant to surprise the reader. This leads them astray and they don't know what to expect.
The Factsheet Paragraph:
“An armored truck was traveling down Orange Avenue during this morning's rush hour. The truck hit a particularly bad pothole, and the backdoor of the vehicle flew open. The truck contained approximately $20,000 in change the city had collected from is parking meters. The money fell to the pavement.Several bags burst open. Police halted traffic. City workers summoned to the scene used brooms to sweep up the coins, then shoveled them back into the truck. But, before the police and other city employees arrived at the scene, dozens of other motorists and bystanders stopped at the scene. Some offered to help. When city officials later counted the money retrieved by the workers, they found they had exactly $18,482.17. The remainder seems to have been stolen.”
Created lead:
Citizens of Orange Avenue got a surprise when coins were raining, but it wasn’t from the sky.
That's all for todays blog, on the next I'll talk about another interesting type of lead!
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