On Writing: the first chapter [ Logan l Avatar l Fault in our Stars l 1984 ]

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[Thee_Sinner]

I had an idea last night:

Imagine a TV series where every season is the same scenario, but some seemingly minor detail in the first act is different each time around and the whole thing is about how that detail can change the entire plot.

[TheWanderingLPer]

One of my personal favorite opening lines is "The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault."

[N.Traveler]

Favorite opening line: "100 years ago the four nations lived together in harmony, then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked."

[kevnar]

"Somewhere along the treeline of a dying forest, near a half-dead village by a river, a young girl worked at destroying the world." - The Shadow, by Kevin R. Ranville

[iknowfacebutidontknowname]

*It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of no fortune, must be in want of a cat, for what else could possibly bring him happiness?*

[ololololo]

"Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood" from Percy Jackson is my favourite ever opening line

[davidnoel]

My favorite opening Lines: "Where's Pappa going with the ax?" Charlotte's Web. "This is the story of the day I died." Is also the opening line of Tangled. "There was a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it." Voyage of the Dawntreader.

[larsmurdochkalsta]

The opening line to the first story I'm gonna right is now going to be "mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell". No matter what that story is I'm gonna make it work

[JessieWard]

John Grisham, one of the most successful writers in America, always said he wrote the first chapter last, so that if he had to cram anything in, he could put it there instead of in the last chapter so that the reader would not feel overwhelmed.

[ivanpoparic]

Mother died today. Or was it yesterday, I don't know.

- Albert Camus: The Stranger (1942)
My favourite opening line ever.

[angelaphsiao]

Clocks striking thirteen means nothing special for those on the 24-hour clock

[azazel]

On writing: Friendship.
My ultimate challenge on my writing is how to develop a convincente form of friendship between my characters.

[devoux]

One of my favorite openingish lines is from The Hobbit. "In a hold in the ground their lived a Hobbit." It just intrigues the reader.

[AlrycaAeveaHexendias]

This... is the story if how I died...




But DON'T WORRY! This is actually a pretty fun story and truth is it isn't even mine!

[Titanic_Tuna]

The best Opening line is "A WIZARD DID IT!"

[TheOlian]

Erm... "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen"... that's just a regular April day in Sweden... (note that we are almost up by polar circle so its always kinda cool, and that we use the 24h clock, so the "clocks strike thirteen" every day)

[Bookdragon]

So I was reading the list at 12:07 and expecting it to be serious, and then the second point says: Stabbing yourself in the eyes for how many times you have rewritten the same sentence.


I was dying 😂😂😂. I love how he throws that kind of stuff in between 😆.

[Ashley-xulk]

My favorite opening line is, "Joost had two problems: the moon and his mustache." (Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo)

[mnemosftb]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.

[samkibbey]

"And do you know where stories come from?"

My brain: long histories of oral traditions that were passed down through generations, slowly and subtly being manipulated to fit the current age until eventually written down and made a concrete work.

"Books!"

Me: oh... Yeah. That too.