How to begin a story

[AbyssalDaemon]

I posted a variation of this elsewhere and this is rather embarrassing to ask but I was wondering if anyone here could give me any advice on how to start the beginning of a story. I've got a number of various ideas floating around in my head that I'd like to write but I can't ever figure out how to actually start the beginning of the story itself and was wondering if anyone could give me any advice on how to do so.
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-Lloyd Irving (Tales of Symphonia)