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Beginnings
Mickey Finn:
Ok, everyone write an opening line.. Now. Come on, you wanna.
--- Quote ---If there's one thing I've learned over the years, it's that waking up in a body bag just plain sucks…but the first time is the worst.
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Yes, that's the opening line for a novel I'm working on.
Lord Arioch:
Oh... all right...
--- Quote ---They say waking up in a familiar place is a good thing. What they don’t say, is that when you do it, but have no idea how you got there, it is still just as unnerving. They also don’t mention how bloody annoying the alarm clock is.
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Paige:
Some of these are really great. I wanna play too, but reading what's been posted here, I'm gonna have to try harder from now on.
::sigh:: :-\
One of these is published the other isn't. Not saying which is which...
--- Quote --- “He’s one of the fallen,” Father Papous said, his thick arms crossed over the belly he’d wedged against the small wrought-iron café table. He looked pinched in the middle like a balloon animal.
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--- Quote --- “You think they’ll try to kill me?”
“Yes.” Zade wouldn’t look at her. His gaze fixed on the street lamp across from Isabel’s bedroom window. The light’s honey glow was a safer sight, by far, than the little witch drifting toward sleep behind him in the dark.
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;D
terioncalling:
*searches out one*
--- Quote ---The oddest things always seem to happen in the most normal of settings. For some reason, Fate or whatever – or whoever, if you want – controls the metaphorical strings of humanity seems to enjoy the chaos that incidents like these cause.
Guess everybody needs some kind of entertainment, right?
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Opening lines from a werewolf short story I wrote for my creative writing class and am working on expanding into a novel.
Dom:
Well, this has already shown up elsewhere as an example, but here it is again:
--- Quote ---There's a place in rural Illinois in the cornfields between Chicago and Champaign where if you asked the locals if they believed in the supernatural, they would tell you that they knew a Satanist that made devil's food cake that was positively demonic. And they'd grin a little when saying it.
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