Thanks as always Harvey. I'm excited about your new series. Just love it when the creative mind says, 'hold my beer' & 'betcha didn't see that coming'.
Here's to a great writing, publishing, learning, marketing year of WITD to us all.
My favorite is Everett's "Those little bastards were hiding out there in the tall grass." (Though in my mind I flashed to a rice paddie in Vietnam, not slaves.)
The other intriguing ones were
Chung's "I didn’t start out wanting to be a guy."
Gagne's "Whenever I ask my mother if she remembers the time in second grade when I stabbed a kid in the head with a pencil, her answer is the same:
'Vaguely.'”
Burns' "Waylon Joseph crouched behind Mercury’s ballfields bleachers on the south end of town, smoking a cigarette and hiding from his wife." and
Ailes' "For my boyfriend’s thirtieth birthday I thought I’d go all out and surprise him with a pregnancy."
Whenever possible (IMHO) an opening should be brisk and populated with action verbs. Those that include state-of-being or linking verbs don't usually entice me to keep reading. Too many unnecessary moving parts, and all of them give the reader a chance to exit.
I'll include your question and this response in tomorrow's TNDJ. Thanks!
Thanks as always Harvey. I'm excited about your new series. Just love it when the creative mind says, 'hold my beer' & 'betcha didn't see that coming'.
Here's to a great writing, publishing, learning, marketing year of WITD to us all.
Thanks for the toast. I couldn't have said it better myself. :-)
Hello Harvey. Thanks for featuring my compilation of the best Great Opening Lines of 2024. Which one(s) was your favorite, and why?
Hi Mardy,
My favorite is Everett's "Those little bastards were hiding out there in the tall grass." (Though in my mind I flashed to a rice paddie in Vietnam, not slaves.)
The other intriguing ones were
Chung's "I didn’t start out wanting to be a guy."
Gagne's "Whenever I ask my mother if she remembers the time in second grade when I stabbed a kid in the head with a pencil, her answer is the same:
'Vaguely.'”
Burns' "Waylon Joseph crouched behind Mercury’s ballfields bleachers on the south end of town, smoking a cigarette and hiding from his wife." and
Ailes' "For my boyfriend’s thirtieth birthday I thought I’d go all out and surprise him with a pregnancy."
Whenever possible (IMHO) an opening should be brisk and populated with action verbs. Those that include state-of-being or linking verbs don't usually entice me to keep reading. Too many unnecessary moving parts, and all of them give the reader a chance to exit.
I'll include your question and this response in tomorrow's TNDJ. Thanks!
Thanks, my friend. I didn't expect such a full and complete answer!
Grin. Yeah, I get wordy.