Apr. 1st, 2021 03:56 pm
First Lines Meme!
A lovely little meme I borrowed from the delightful
darvyn:
List the first lines of your last 10 stories (if you have fewer than 10, just list them all!). See if there are any patterns. Choose your favorite opening line.
( The full gamut is behind a cut, for space reasons, but... )
...I think my favorite out of all of them is the opener for Highway to the Edge. It does the best job of establishing character voice and conflict, imo, and I feel like the words "murder plot" are kind of an automatic hook to swindle someone into continuing to read at least a little further.
It has also become very clear to me, when weighing the first line from something like Curtain Call—which is a piece I wrote quite some time ago but only very recently posted—against the others, that I've gotten better at writing, in general. I still have a tendency to overwrite, but I think I've worked on my flow a lot and managed to hit a point where it's not necessarily a bad thing that I get florid at times.
I'm not sure that I have a pattern, per se, though I am pretty proud of my consistency when it comes to just flinging the reader straight into the action.
What are some of y'all's favorites of your own?
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List the first lines of your last 10 stories (if you have fewer than 10, just list them all!). See if there are any patterns. Choose your favorite opening line.
( The full gamut is behind a cut, for space reasons, but... )
...I think my favorite out of all of them is the opener for Highway to the Edge. It does the best job of establishing character voice and conflict, imo, and I feel like the words "murder plot" are kind of an automatic hook to swindle someone into continuing to read at least a little further.
It has also become very clear to me, when weighing the first line from something like Curtain Call—which is a piece I wrote quite some time ago but only very recently posted—against the others, that I've gotten better at writing, in general. I still have a tendency to overwrite, but I think I've worked on my flow a lot and managed to hit a point where it's not necessarily a bad thing that I get florid at times.
I'm not sure that I have a pattern, per se, though I am pretty proud of my consistency when it comes to just flinging the reader straight into the action.
What are some of y'all's favorites of your own?