"You betta read this one!"
📖 Your opening line is your promise to the reader! Hook them with intrigue, humor, or boldness, and they’ll keep turning the pages. Learn how to craft unforgettable opening lines in today’s Tony Tips Tuesday!
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Cliches to Avoid for an Original Novel Opening
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http://georgelthomas.com/2025/01/21/cliches-to-avoid-for-an-original-novel-opening/
"When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man."
Probably the best opening line of a Richard Stark novel. (That one is from FIREBREAK.) But they're all exceptional.
I see they're showing Neuromancer at the
waterside #cinema down on #RegentsCanal
And I managed to catch the start too!!
#SciFi #cyberpunk #LoveLondonWalkLondon #OpeningLines #photography #london
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2024 winners have been announced! Some of these are hilarious!
If you don't know what this contest is: "Founded in 1982 at San Jose State University in California, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest challenges entrants to compose opening sentences to the worst of all possible novels." The novels do not actually exist.
https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2024
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It was a dark and stormy night, the inky pools of shadow in the sparsely furnished room punctuated only by jittery flashes of lightning and the throbbing #065a8f rather than #006699 blue background and glowing scroll of resolute white text and flirtatious lime green links as styled by the Modern Dark theme (for it is on Metafilter.com that our scene lies) emanating from the sleepless reader's laptop screen.
https://www.metafilter.com/205160/2024-Bulwer-Lytton-winners-announced
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Opening lines and open endings: writing tips for your best book openings and satisfying novel endings https://kobowritinglife.com/2024/07/08/opening-lines-and-open-endings-writing-tips-for-your-best-book-openings-and-satisfying-novel-endings/ #TheCraftofWriting #KoboWritingLife #self-publishing #craftofwriting #writingadvice #authoradvice #indieauthors #novelendings #novelopenins #openinglines #writingcraft #bookendings #writingtips #endings #writing #Blog #Tips #Kobo #tips #KWL
We are back on the air,
sweet as evah
#OpeningLines
#SpaceVanishingPointThreeThousand #3000
#SuperCinematicChrystal
#TheSpiceMustFLOW
#HASHTAGtheWORLD
#Black #students #weigh #mentioning #race in #college #admissions #essays after #SCOTUS #affirmativeaction #ruling.
#LynijahRussell #debated the #openinglines of her #video #application to #BrownUniversity for weeks before deciding to be as #candid about her #identity as possible.
“Hi Brown! My name is Lynijah, and I am a #Black #girl in #STEM"
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #HigherEducation #Race #Representation #Culture #BlackMastodon
RT @Carmunist: "The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new."
--Samuel Beckett, Murphy (1938)
There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.
- Louis Sachar, Holes
KARÁCSONY, Benő: Napos Oldal [The Sunny Side]
„Azóta, hogy szélnek eresztett az élet, mint egy darab fölösleges sajtpapírt, persze másként nézem a dolgokat meg a gyárigazgatókat.”
*rough* translation:
"Since life blew me away like a piece of unnecessary cheese paper, of course in a different way I look at the things and the factory managers."
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@mikebaarda @DocCarms @bookstodon I think you have a point, but it's kind of context-dependent. Personally, when I read that line, sure my interest is piqued a little, but I'm also immediately primed to be looking for an explanation of the things you mentioned, and I'm not likely to have a good time reading the story until I start getting that explanation (or at least some justification for why I need to wait for it, like if the POV character is trying to find out). So it's kind of a high-risk high-reward maneuver: an opening line that introduces mysterious terms for story elements (such as, but not limited to, characters) can backfire badly if the rest of the story doesn't deliver details at the right pace.
It's also definitely possible to overdo it by throwing so many unfamiliar terms at the reader so fast that they get turned off. Not the case here, of course, but other books definitely do it.
</non-expert-opinion>
@bookstodon I’m enjoying the submission of amazing #OpeningLines in literature.
Keep em coming! 😊
Even in her own genre the claim seemed ... implausible. And outside of it, well.
Julian Barnes's Metroland:
There is no rule against carrying binoculars in the National Gallery.
@DocCarms @bookstodon “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” — One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 👌
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There had been something loose about the station dock all morning, skulking in amongst the gantries and the lines and the canisters which were waiting to be moved, lurking wherever shadows fell among the rampway accesses of the many ships at dock at Meetpoint.
-CJ Cherryh, Pride of Chanur
@DocCarms @bookstodon @phoenixashes76 it does get better:
“It was a nice day.
All the days had been nice. There had been rather more than seven of them so far, and rain hadn't been invented yet. But clouds massing east of Eden suggested that the first thunderstorm was on its way, and it was going to be a big one.”
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
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@DocCarms @bookstodon here’s the first line of the book I’m currently reading:
“It was the day my grandmother exploded.”
The Crow Road, Iain Banks
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There was a poll that stated—Rowling’s opening line in the HP series is one of best in the world. Someone posted about how there are a bunch of other opening statements that are better.
Here’s one of my personal favorites, from Gabriel Garcia Marquez (in English):
“It is inevitable — the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”
What are some of your favorite opening lines in literature? 😊
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