dropping a reader into the story

The drop method I used was starting with a dramatic scene.

Panting, she woke up. She had the nightmare again and this time more vivid than ever. It always began with her running frantically in fear for her life with a man steadily coming after her. Also, it always ended with the same dreadful scene, she choked to death and lay morbidly on the floor and at an unnatural angle. Her therapist, Spencer, told her these dreams were brought about because she was becoming aware of her mortality due to the death of her boyfriend six months ago in a car accident, and that it she could suffer and be the victim, but she knew better. She knew these were visions, and she knew she would not let them come true.

However, she lived with the guilt that she could have saved her boyfriend, which made her life very miserable. So, she decided the happiness wasn't worth the pain at least not anymore. Which gave her an idea. She decided to convince someone to kill her. Murder her. Or kill herself, and make it like murder. Or it could be a murder that looked like she killed herself. The ideas flowed out of her mind, and she started planning how she would kill herself, or get herself murdered. Minutes, hours, days and even weeks passed by, as she planned her own murder. And it was that one person who you wouldn't expect, and that is why the person she chose was the perfect murder.

Jamie - dead person - she/her
Spencer - a protagonist - he/him
Dies on Christmas eve