story opening techniques

These are just a five of the story opening techniques I'll try below.

With a generalization:  I get headaches a lot, but I think it's because I'm allergic to school.  I wonder if I could get a doctor's note for that?

With a description of a person:  He was tall and thin, but his age and habits had shaped him into less of an oak and more of lava lamp with a big of sag at his belly climbing up and narrowing to a small spout of his head, a batted in chin, and beady eyes.

With a narrative summary:  At some point in my years of caring for children and education, I had decided teaching was a place I could impact more people, keep practicing creativity, and find some good stories to write about.

With dialogue:  "I bought my plane ticket, and in two weeks I'm going to America," she told me.  Twenty-five years of marriage, two children, fifteen years in Turkey, and now she was packing up and leaving it all.  "I'm going to renew my nursing license and try to start over."

With a child narrator:  I used to imagine there were dinosaur bones under our hills.  Of course, I was pretty sure this wasn't likely - but then again, nobody had every looked and our front hill was surely shaped in the likeness of a brontosaurus.  Maybe archeologists needed wild ideas like mine to make new discoveries.