: Disclaimer: This may not work for everyone. What I always do is to find the hook sentence. Two reasons: (1) It will make the reader wonder what's next in the story (2) It'll make YOU wonder

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Disclaimer: This may not work for everyone.

What I always do is to find the hook sentence. Two reasons: (1) It will make the reader wonder what's next in the story (2) It'll make YOU wonder what's the next in the story (so you'll continue writing it in order to find out).

So for your example above, I would do this:

1) What words are related to the idea/message?

meat
cow
unhealthy
vomiting

2) OK, let's write the hooking sentence.

a. When Tony came back to his apartment, he found a giant cow sitting
in the living room.

(The cow can be the one telling Tony why eating meat is bad).

b. Tony's vomiting started on May 16 and then--with no apparent reason--ended on June 1.

(The vomiting can be related to his habit of eating meat).

The plot will build itself afterwards (especially since you already got the message).

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