The beginning is something that not only encourages your audience, but also the writer to continue pursuing their own writing/story. I have the same exact problem! What I do is I try to picture my story in my head and I like to describe exactly what is happening, but I like to start with something interesting. (Poetic starting, dialogue, anything really, as long as its written well).
There are many things you SHOULDN'T do though. You can start a story however you want, but you should stray away from the following:
1. Describing the weather -- Not the best impression to make, unless it's very important to your story.
2. A dream/waking up from a dream. -- Done way too often.
3. A character looking in the mirror or describing themselves "Hello, my name is ____ and I'm __ years old." That's just an odd way to write, and you're breaking a rule in writing. You're supposed to show your audience instead of tell them.
I hope this was somewhat helpful, but I understand how terribly hard it is to start off writing! But once that is finished, we both know that everything flows from there!
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