After reading the prologue of Montana 1948 (pg. 11-12), notice how the author, a now older and wiser person looking back on an incident of the past, describes three distinct characters.
Each character is engaged in DOING something--an action. Let your mind become like a movie screen, allow your narrator to describe the image of a woman swim into view. Describe her action, with a definite body position: standing, sitting, leaning, kneeling, lying down, etc. Take about 5 minutes to write this scene in your journal.
After 5 minutes, see a man in a different body position. See what he looks like, where he is, what he is doing. Describe this character. He says something. What does he say? Take about 5 minutes to write this scene in your journal.
Finally, pick another character: male, female, animal, etc. Describe this person or thing's body position. Describe this character. Take about 5 minutes to write this scene in your journal.
Now you're ready to move further. Decide who your narrator will be, how old the narrator is when the story he/she is narrating happened. Connect the three characters to the narrator somehow. Now type the story.
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