Sunday, May 3, 2009

It's a lovely begining start

I like love the strike function. You'll see why.

I'm also OK with fond of the occasionall crazy post.

I wrote something, well, took notes on something that I think is a pretty great opening couple of sentences or paragraphs to a future book. Hopefully interesting writing. Promisingly unique premise. I'll probably be posting it here, or google doc'ing it for some thoughts.

Meanwhile, as I approach the end of the current book, I'm thinking more and more about openings. I feel like the opening sentence has to have a real hook. Both to attact the eye of editors and readers. Its, outside of the headline, the first chance to bait the reader. It sets the whole mood from there on out. Ok, maybe that's a bit overselling it, maybe not the entire mood. But the reality is that I'm not sure its overselling it too much. An interesting first sentence sets the table, so to speak.

Since this book was written kind of from the middle plot point and expanded outward in both directions, I don't have a opening line in mind.

I'm sure its a battle that will be well documented.
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  1. UnknownMay 4, 2009 at 4:08 AM

    "I feel like the opening sentence has to have a real hook."

    I think that many good books do have opening sentences with hooks, like Moby Dick. But I'm not sure it's vital to the book. A short story, yes, but a book needs to stand on so much more, which is why I think the hook expands to the opening scene and needs to draw out the curiosity of the reader. Sometimes this is done in the first line. Sometimes it's not.

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