> When twins Hannah and Grace Pratt moved out of their tiny dorm room at the University of Northern Iowa and into their “adult” apartment, the mini-fridge they no longer needed gave their mother, Sarah, an opportunity: an extra place to store her art.
Is there a name for this kind of narrative "cold open" where you plonk a tangential detail of the article in the first paragraph, and only start the article properly in the next one?
My teacher would have crossed it out with "irrelevant, get to the point" in the margin! The irony of this being off the main topic of the article is not lost on me, but I'll drag it back into HN territory by saying "something something AI training data".
There’s a journalism school somewhere teaching these “writing tricks” and I hate it with a passion.
The other one is the “hot start” with a paragraph that is interesting and then it suddenly diverts to pages of useless backstory you don’t care about, and doesn’t resume for ages.
Is there a name for this kind of narrative "cold open" where you plonk a tangential detail of the article in the first paragraph, and only start the article properly in the next one?
My teacher would have crossed it out with "irrelevant, get to the point" in the margin! The irony of this being off the main topic of the article is not lost on me, but I'll drag it back into HN territory by saying "something something AI training data".